Capitalist realism
Glimmers, working-class authenticity and Andrea Dunbar in the twenty-first century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12878237 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katie Beswick (0000-0001-7195-4416, University of Exeter, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 75-89 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1740-8296 • E-ISSN: 2040-0918 |
| Publisher | Intellect (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/macp_00016_1 |
| OpenAlex | W2998047013 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 15 |
This article thinks through how registers of ‘the real’ have operated in working-class representations, from social realism (in film, theatre, drama and soap opera) to reality television and appeals to ‘authenticity’ in publicity and marketing materials for cultural products purporting to represent the working class. It argues that the ubiquity of ‘the real’ in representations of working-class experience is one way in which Fisher’s ‘capitalist realism’ asserts itself. The article argues that experiments with form and intertextuality can offer ‘glimmers’ through which slippages in claims to absolute reality are revealed. It explores the possibility for such ‘glimmers’ in experimentations with Andrea Dunbar’s work in the twenty-first century, reasserting the importance of form in dismantling the neo-liberal political project
Aesthetics · Art · Class (philosophy · Drama · Epistemology · Intertextuality · Literature · Media studies · Opera · Political science · Politics · Publicity · Realism · Sociology · Working class · Law · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |