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1 online resource (233 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
9780719082689; 9780719082689; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: On the reality of film; 1 Beyond political modernism; 2 Realism, reality and authenticity; 3 The imaginary as filmic reality; 4 A reality beyond imagining; 5 Cinema produces reality; 6 Filmic reality and ideological fantasy; 7 Filmic reality and the aesthetic regime; Afterword; Notes; References; Index. |
| Summary |
In formulating a notion of filmic reality, The Reality of Film offers a novel way of understanding our relationship to cinema. It argues that cinema need not be understood in terms of its capacities to refer to, reproduce or represent reality, but should be understood in terms of the kinds of realities it has the ability to create. The Reality of Film investigates filmic reality by way of six key film theorists: André Bazin, Christian Metz, Stanley Cavell, Gilles Deleuze, Slavoj?i?ek and Jacques Rancière. In doing so, it provides comprehensive introductions to each of these thinkers, while als. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy.
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy. |
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Reality in motion pictures.
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Reality in motion pictures. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rushton, Richard. Reality of Film : Theories of Filmic Reality. Manchester : Manchester University Press, ©2010 9780719082689 |
| ISBN |
9781847793416 (electronic book) |
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184779341X (electronic book) |
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9780719091377 |
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0719091373 |
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