Realism and popular cinema

1. Realism and film: discursive formations. 2. Realist moments: reprsentation and reality. 3. Realism and genre: realising fantasy. 4. The epic of everyday: notes towards a continuum. 5. Discerning viewers: cognitive theory and identification. 6. Re-visioning history: realism and politics. 7. Space, place and identity: re-viewing social realism. 8. Violent appropriations: realising death.