Tag: Social Realism

• Alan Clarke’s DIANE (1975) and the Guilty Austerities of Post-Imperial British Realism 

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  by Daniel E. Smith Released in 1975 through BBC2’s Playhouse teleplay anthology, Diane remains a relatively underseen work in Alan Clarke’s filmography. This may in some part be due to the undeniable bleakness of the teleplay’s subject matter, focusing on incest and rape and how one (namely, the titular Diane) learns to deal with them…