Mello, Cecília
Realism and the Audiovisual Media
Part I. Theorizing Realism
1. World Cinema: Realism, Evidence, Presence
Thomas Elsaesser
2. Whither Realism? Bazin Reconsidered
Leighton Grist
3. Brecht, Realism and the Media
Marc Silberman
4. Melodrama as Realism in Italian Neorealism
Louis Bagman
5. Scale and the Negotiation of ‘Real’ and ‘Unreal’ Space in the Cinema
Mary Ann Doane
Part II. World Cinema and New Realisms
6. Realism and Gus Van Sant’s Elephant
Anna Backman Rogers
7. Observational Realism in New Taiwan Cinema
Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley
8. Realism and National Identity in
Armida Garza
9. A Journey through Time: Alexander Sokurov’s
Vlad Strukov
Part III. The Realism of the Medium
10. Realism, Real Sex and the Experimental Film: Mediating Eroticism in
Beth Johnson
11. Breath Control: The Sound and Sight of Respiration as Hyperrealist Corporeality in
Davina Quinlivan
12. Ontology, Film and the Case of Eric Rohmer
Jacob Leigh
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Part IV. Documentary, Television and the Ethics of Representation
14. Filmmaking as the Production of Reality: A Study of Hara and Kobayashi’s Documentaries
Lúcia Nagib
15. Character Construction in Brazilian Documentary Films: Modern Cinema, Classical Narrative and Micro-Realism
Ismail Xavier
16. The Difficulty with Documentary: A Filmmaker’s View
João Moreira Salles
17. Losing Grip on Reality: A Reflection on British Factual Television
Diane Myers
Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Film and Television Studies, Media Research, Cultural Studies, Intellectual Studies, Film History, Philosophical Traditions
- Editor
- Mello, Cecília
- Nagib, Lúcia
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2009
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 283 pages
- Category
- Art, Art History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230246973
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-36699-6