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Title: Regarding the Real
Condition: New
EAN: 9780719099663
ISBN: 9780719099663
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 20/01/2016
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Author: Des O'Rawe
Language: English
Subtitle: Cinema, Documentary, and the Visual Arts
ISBN-10: 0719099668
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.

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