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  2. Social problem film - Wikipedia

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    Perhaps the most notable instance of the idea of real-life insertions is the opening scene of Border Incident (1949), a social problem film about Mexican immigration following the instituting of the Bracero Program in 1942 meant to alleviate the shortage of farm-hand work in the United States. The film opens with a flyover shot of farmland as ...

  3. No Shortcuts - Wikipedia

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    No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age (ISBN 1586480499) is a 2016 non-fiction book by Jane McAlevey, in which the author argues that meaningful social change can only happen when organizing is built around workers and ordinary people at the community level. The book uses case studies from the labor unions and social movements.

  4. Docufiction - Wikipedia

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    Docufiction (or docu-fiction) is the cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction, this term often meaning narrative film. It is a film genre [ 1 ] which attempts to capture reality such as it is (as direct cinema or cinéma vérité ) and which simultaneously introduces unreal elements or fictional situations in narrative in order to ...

  5. List of stories set in a future now in the past - Wikipedia

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    Set during the events of Half-Life. Hardware: Film 1990 2000 Set on a post-apocalyptic Earth devastated by nuclear war. A scavenger discovers the head of a cyborg in the desert, and it later reanimates and goes on a murderous rampage. Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man: Film 1991 1996 A new designer drug, crystal dream, is in common use.

  6. The New Heroes - Wikipedia

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    The new machine would be unstable and potentially kill hundreds of thousands of people, but it was a risk they were willing to take. With the help of old heroes, including the frozen-in-time Renata Soliz (Diamond), they stop this from happening and have the people behind the plot taken away.

  7. Fiction - Wikipedia

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    The use of real events or real individuals as direct inspiration for imaginary events or imaginary individuals is known as fictionalization. The opposite circumstance, in which the physical world or a real turn of events seem influenced by past fiction, is commonly described by the phrase "life imitating art".

  8. Anti-union violence in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Union organizer Frank Little was pulled from his bed and lynched in 1917 because of his union activities.. Historically, violence against unions has included attacks by detective and guard agencies, such as the Pinkertons, Baldwin Felts, Burns, or Thiel detective agencies; citizens groups, such as the Citizens' Alliance; company guards; police; national guard; or even the military.

  9. Utopian and dystopian fiction - Wikipedia

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    Most authors of dystopian fiction explore at least one reason why things are that way, often as an analogy for similar issues in the real world. Dystopian literature serves to "provide fresh perspectives on problematic social and political practices that might otherwise be taken for granted or considered natural and inevitable". [ 7 ]