This collection examines two recent phenomena: the return of realist tendencies and practices in world cinema and television, and the 'rehabilitation' of realism in film and media theory. The contributors investigate these two phenomena in detail, querying their origins, relations, divergences and intersections from a variety of perspectives. INDICE: List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors -Introduction - PART I: THEORIZING REALISM - World Cinema: Realism, Evidence, Presence; T.Elsaesser - Whither Realism? Bazin Reconsidered; L.Grist - On Brecht, Realism and the Media; M.Silberman - Melodrama as Realism in Italian Neorealism; L.Bayman - Scale and the Negotiation of 'Real' and 'Unreal' Space in the Cinema; M.A.Doane - PART II: WORLD CINEMA AND NEW REALISMS - Realism and GusVan Sant's Elephant ; A.Rogers - Observational Realism in Taiwan New Cinema; M-Y.T.Rawnsley - Realism and National Identity in Y Tu Mamá También : An Audience Perspective; A.De La Garza - A Journey through Time: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark and Theories of Mimesis; V.Strukov - PART III: THE REALISM OF THE MEDIUM - Realism, Real Sex and Experimental Cinema: Mediating Eroticism in Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye ; B.Johnson - Breath Control: The Sound and Sight of Respiration as Hyper-Realist Corporeality in Breaking the Waves ; D.Quinlivan - Ontology, Film and the Case of Eric Rohmer; J.Leigh - Up the Junction: Ken Loach and TV Realism; C.Mello - PART IV: DOCUMENTARY, TV AND THE ETHICSOF REPRESENTATION - Filmmaking as the Production of Reality b A Study of Haraand Kobayashi's Documentaries; L.Nagib - Character Construction in Brazilian Documentary Films: Modern Cinema, Classical Narrative and Micro-Realism; I.Xavier - The Difficulty with Documentary; J.M.Salles - Losing Grip on Reality b AReflection on British Factual Television; D.Myers - Notes - Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-57722-0
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 29/10/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés