Regarding the real
Cinema, documentary, and the visual arts
By Des O'Rawe
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- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN: 978-0-7190-9966-3
- Pages: 208
- Price: £85.00
- Published Date: January 2016
Description
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.
Contents
Introduction
1 Suspended animation
2 Somewhere in the city
3 Questioning the frame
4 Eclectic dialectics
5 One plus one (pm)
6 Journey to Central Park
7 Architectures of vision
Index
Author
Des O'Rawe is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies in the School of Arts, English and Languages at Queen's University Belfast