Joel Black

The Reality Effect (eBook, ePUB)

Film Culture and the Graphic Imperative

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It used to be only movies were on film; now the whole world is. The most intimate and most banal moments of our lives are constantly recorded for public consumption. In The Reality Effect, Joel Black argues that the desire to make visible every aspect of our lives is an impulse derived from cinema- one that has made life both more graphic and less "e;real."e; He approaches film as a documentary medium that has obscured-if not obliterated- the line between reality and fiction. To illustrate this effect, Black traces the uncanny interplay between movies and real-life events through a series of comparative analyses-from Lolita and the murder of JonBenet Ramsey to Wag the Dog and the Clinton scandal to Crash and Princess Diana's violent death.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135354398
• Artikelnr.: 39478660

Autorenporträt

Joel Black teaches comparative literature and film at the University of Georgia. He is the author of The Aestheticsof Murder: A Study in Romantic Literature andContemporary Culture (1991).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Filmed Century Before (and Beyond) Art and Entertainment
The Reality Effect Reality Bites Back: Kernel Truths From Cinema Verité to
Reality TV Mediating Reality: Wag the Dog to War Games The Graphic
Imperative Part I: Film Culture One: Pornographic Science Missing Scenes:
Coover's CasablancaIntrusive Scenes: Scorsese's Marriage ManualFreezing the
Scene: Pynchon's Prehistory of FilmYour Car's Mind Two: Primal
ScenesQuestioning the Woman Films Without FilmInfantilizing the Viewer
Hard-core Freud The Reality of Fantasy De Palma's Wolf Man Three: Body
Parts Multiple Images and Displaced Desire Split Persons and Body Doubles
Shower Show: Dressed to Kill to Body Double The Erotics of Substitution:
Vertigo to Body DoubleVamps and VampiresConjugal Adultery and Movie
Children Part II: Filmic Events Four: Documenting Violence Serial
Violence/Surveillance The Year of Filming DangerouslyHidden Figures: The
Assassination Scene from Antonioni to Zapruder Surprise Executions Films
that Kill Five: Telling Stories I Want You to See with My EyesScreening the
Holocaust Screening Hollywood The Death of the Mind Six: Showing the
ObsceneTime and the Unthinkable Releasing the UnreleasableStealing
Childhood: Lolita to JonBenétDeath Imitates Art: Crash and Princess
DianaWagging the Dog; Sex, Lies, and the Clinton VideotapesPart III: Film
DreamsSeven: From Dream Work to DreamWorks Unreal Estate: Fake Towns, Real
People Ants Wars Back to the Future: Movies, the Ride From the Moon to
Mars: 2001 Then and NowThe Color of Dreams Back to the Drawing Board:
Movies, the GameDream Worlds Afterword on the Afterlife Notes Name and
Title Index Subject Index