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  2. Naturalism (literature) - Wikipedia

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    Naturalism is a literary movement beginning in the late nineteenth century, similar to literary realism in its rejection of Romanticism, but distinct in its embrace of determinism, detachment, scientific objectivism, and social commentary.

  3. Symbolism (arts) - Wikipedia

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    Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism. In literature, the style originates with the 1857 publication of Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal.

  4. Infrarealism - Wikipedia

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    Infrarealism (Spanish: Infrarrealismo) is a poetic movement founded in Mexico City in 1975 by a group of twenty young poets, including Roberto Bolaño, Mario Santiago Papasquiaro, José Vicente Anaya, es:Rubén Medina, es:José Rosas Ribeyro, Guadalupe Ochoa, Vera and Mara Larrosa, es:Claudia Kerik, es:Darío Galicia and José Peguero.

  5. Socialist realism - Wikipedia

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    Socialist realism was the official cultural doctrine of the Soviet Union that mandated an idealized ... These poetic images were used to show the utopianism of ...

  6. Parallel cinema - Wikipedia

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    Indian theatre, Bengali literature, social realism, poetic realism, Italian neorealism Parallel cinema or New Indian Cinema , is a film movement in Indian cinema that originated in the state of West Bengal in the 1950s as an alternative to the mainstream commercial Indian cinema.

  7. Sven Nykvist - Wikipedia

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    Sven Vilhem Nykvist (Swedish pronunciation: [svɛn ˈvɪ̌lːhɛlm ˈnŷːkvɪst]; 3 December 1922 – 20 September 2006) was a Swedish cinematographer and filmmaker.. His work is generally noted for its naturalism and simplicity.

  8. French impressionist cinema - Wikipedia

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    As Aitken summarizes, "…fully realized photogénie could only be manifested when its latent power was employed to express the vision of the film-maker, so that the inherent poetry of the cinema could be harnessed, and developed in a revelatory manner by the auteur". [8]

  9. La Grande Illusion - Wikipedia

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    La Grande Illusion (French for "The Grand Illusion") is a 1937 French war drama film directed by Jean Renoir, who co-wrote the screenplay with Charles Spaak.The story concerns class relationships among a small group of French officers who are German prisoners of war during World War I and are plotting an escape.