Realism and the Audiovisual Media

Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Introduction......Page 15
Part I: Theorizing Realism......Page 28
1 World Cinema: Realism, Evidence, Presence......Page 30
2 Whither Realism? Bazin Reconsidered......Page 47
3 Brecht, Realism and the Media......Page 58
4 Melodrama as Realism in Italian Neorealism......Page 74
5 Scale and the Negotiation of ‘Real’ and ‘Unreal’ Space in the Cinema......Page 90
Part II: World Cinema and New Realisms......Page 110
6 Realism and Gus Van Sant’s Elephant......Page 112
7 Observational Realism in New Taiwan Cinema......Page 123
8 Realism and National Identity in Y tu mamá también: An Audience Perspective......Page 135
9 A Journey through Time: Alexander Sokurov’s Russian Ark and Theories of Mimesis......Page 146
Part III: The Realism of the Medium......Page 160
10 Realism, Real Sex and the Experimental Film: Mediating Eroticism in Georges Bataille’s Story of the Eye......Page 162
11 Breath Control: The Sound and Sight of Respiration as Hyperrealist Corporeality in Breaking the Waves......Page 179
12 Ontology, Film and the Case of Eric Rohmer......Page 191
13 Up the Junction: Ken Loach and TV Realism......Page 202
Part IV: Documentary, Television and the Ethics of Representation......Page 218
14 Filmmaking as the Production of Reality: A Study of Hara and Kobayashi’s Documentaries......Page 220
15 Character Construction in Brazilian Documentary Films: Modern Cinema, Classical Narrative and Micro-Realism......Page 237
16 The Difficulty with Documentary: A Filmmaker’s View......Page 251
17 Losing Grip on Reality: A Reflection on British Factual Television......Page 262
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