Why have so many films of the "gritty realism" tradition been set in northern landscapes? ... As the term implies gritty films are concerned with realism, however any realism in films is an altered, sculptured realism designed to fit into a constructed narrative with suitable plot turns and drama. ... The working class is imbued with an inherent sense of realism. ... Therefore explaining why so many gritty-realism films are set in Northern landscapes. ... There are a multitude of examples of moral or surface realism pertaining to the economy in British realism films. ...

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In order to understand him, there are two keys "realism and Marxism. As a socially and historically confined cultural concept, realism offers a window view on the world while Marxism springs from communism ideals of equality between all people and the non-existence of social stratification that proves to be a major difficulty in this play. ...

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Lenin first defined the economic organisation of 1918-20 as "war" communism. This was in his pamphlet "The Tax in Kind" (1921). In this pamphlet he described it as follows: " a peculiar war communism was forced on us by extreme want, ruin and war it was not, and could not be, a policy that corresponded to the economic tasks of the proletariat." (Malle 1985) In early 1918 Lenin was faced with two main problems. Firstly feeding the workers in the face of severe grain shortages and secondly keeping the workers in the cities to manufacture arms and essential supplies. ...

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Marxist philosophy has been one of the most controversial subject of the last century. It has profoundly influenced the entire world, and the development of the current political relations. In this paper I am going to cover Marx's historical realism, how it was developed and its relevance. ...

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Introduction to Othello Out of the four of Shakespeare's great tragedies, Othello remains the most powerful and forceful not only on the stage but also for study as a critical text. This power is created by the speed and pace set, as compared to the other plays. Instead of a time frame of a few m...

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