social commentary
Noun
Meaning
The expression of one's point of view or feelings towards society, usually through literature.
Satire is often employed in social commentary.
A work of this kind.
Nineteen Eighty-Four is the best known of Orwell's social commentaries.
Examples
Dawn of the Dead is one of the most prophetic and disturbing films you'll see, and I challenge you to find anyone who can find another film from that era which provides the same level of social commentary.
You were doing a TV show - you don't realise that you're also making social commentary at the same time.
When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.
Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.
I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.