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Urban fiction, also known as street lit or street fiction, is a literary genre set in a city landscape; however, the genre is as much defined by the socio-economic realities and culture of its characters as the urban setting. The tone for urban fiction is usually dark, focusing on the underside of city living.
Two Trains Running is a 1990 play by American playwright August Wilson, the seventh in his ten-part series The Pittsburgh Cycle.The play takes place in 1968 in the Hill District, an African-American neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
A Berlin Romance (German: Eine Berliner Romanze) is a 1956 East German neo-realist [1] romantic drama film about youth urban life in the divided city of Berlin, [2] directed by Gerhard Klein. [3] It was produced by the DEFA film company. [4] It stars Annekathrin Bürger, Ulrich Thein and Uwe-Jens Pape. [5]
Kitchen sink realism (or kitchen sink drama) is a British cultural movement that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in theatre, art, [1] novels, film and television plays, whose protagonists usually could be described as "angry young men" who were disillusioned with modern society.
Image credits: MAAAS399 When people move to urban areas in large numbers, which is known as urbanization, it results in urban sprawl. This means that the population of cities becomes dispersed in ...
A social problem film is a narrative film that integrates a larger social conflict into the individual conflict between its characters. In the context of the United States and of Hollywood, the genre is defined by fictionalized depictions of social crises set in realistic American domestic or institutionalized settings.
Another example would be Natural Theatre's Pink Suitcase scenario. A number of smartly dressed people carrying bright pink suitcases enter a set of streets or buildings. They search for and miss their companions. In their search they get on buses, hail cabs, end up in shop windows, etc.
Urbania is a 2000 independent drama film based on the play Urban Folk Tales.It was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, then played the Toronto International Film Festival, the Seattle Film Festival, and a number of LGBT film festivals, winning a total of 6 "Best Film" awards.