For Magnum's mid-twentieth-century pioneers, black and white was the palette of a radically immediate documentary realism.
Thus, Monet's Déjeuner was an extension, by virtue of a more immediate empiricism, of the Realism of Courbet.
Hamilton too holds that there is no reasoning process here, but he also thinks that the continuing division that Reid is employing between sensation and perception is incompatible with the idea of immediate perception or direct realism.
Though both (along with many collaborators and competitors) were deeply engaged in the creation of a new sense of cinematic realism in the immediate aftermath of World War II, their ways of approaching that ever-elusive goal were radically different.
Much more than his immediate American peers – the analytical realism of Philip Roth, the apocalyptic fabulism of Cormac McCarthy, the chilled code-surfing of Don DeLillo – Pynchon relies on humour, in the classic Rabelaisian manner, to keep options open in an enclosing world.
His wishes were fulfilled as the industry prudently moved away from the sombre neo-realism of the immediate postwar years towards mildly saucy comedies and the sub-De Mille-style epics, set in antiquity with their cast of thousands of buxom Roman ladies.
3) Certainty Language indicating resoluteness, inflexibility, and completeness and a tendency to speak ex cathedra 4) Realism Language describing tangible, immediate, recognizable matters that affect people's everyday lives.
Simon Raven's Sound the Retreat (1973), set in the India of the immediate postwar period, sounds a note of realism, of life suddenly not conforming to the mythical patterns novelists like to invent for it.
But asked if Mr. Caliguire could expand his base of support much beyond his immediate acquaintances, the former governor tempered his admiration with realism.
There is a great deal of the fairytale about Lara Foot Newton's script, and the production mixes African storytelling with magic realism in a way that is fresh, immediate and often delightful.
