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- Regarding the real: Cinema, documentary, and the visual arts
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: Manchester University Press
summary
Regarding the real develops an original approach to documentary film, focusing on its aesthetic relations to visual arts such as animation, assemblage, photography, painting and architecture. Throughout, the book considers the work of figures whose preferred film language is associative and fragmentary, and for whom the documentary is an endlessly open form; an unstable expressive phenomenon that cannot help but interrogate its own narratives and intentions. Combining close analysis with cultural history, the book re-assesses the influence of the modern arts in subverting structures of realism typically associated with the documentary. In the course of its discussion, it charts a fascinating path that leads from Len Lye to Hiroshi Teshigahara, and includes along the way figures such as Joseph Cornell, Johan van der Keuken, William Klein, Jean-Luc Godard, Jonas Mekas and Raymond Depardon.
Table of Contents
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- List of illustrations
- pp. viii-ix
- Acknowledgements
- p. x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-10
- 1. Suspended animation
- pp. 11-31
- 2. Somewhere in the city
- pp. 32-60
- 3. Questioning the frame
- pp. 61-88
- 4. Eclectic dialectics
- pp. 89-110
- 5. One plus one (p.m.)
- pp. 111-139
- 6. Journey to Central Park
- pp. 140-160
- 7. Architectures of vision
- pp. 161-177
- Bibliography
- pp. 178-188
Additional Information
ISBN
9781784996697
Related ISBN(s)
9780719099663, 9781526127204
MARC Record
OCLC
980283487
Pages
208
Launched on MUSE
2017-04-02
Language
English
Open Access
No