Recording reality, desiring the real [electronic resource] / Elizabeth Cowie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cowie, Elizabeth.

Series:

Visible evidence ; v. 24.

Visible evidence ; v. 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary films--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis [Minn.] : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Documentary has once again emerged as one of the most vital cultural forms, whether seen in cinemas or inside the home, as digital, film, or video. In Recording Reality, Desiring the Real, Elizabeth Cowie looks at the history of documentary and its contemporary forms, showing how it has been simultaneously understood as factual, as story, as art, and as political, addressing the seeming paradox between the pleasures of spectacle in the documentary and its project of informing and educating. Cowie claims that, as a radical film form, documentary has been a way for filmmakers to acknowledge hist

Contents:

Introduction : the spectacle of actuality and the desire for reality

Narrating the real : the fiction and the non-fiction of documentary storytelling

Working images : representing work and voicing the ordinary

Documentary desire : seeing for ourselves and identifying in reality

Documenting the real

Ways of seeing and the surreal of reality

Specters of the real : documentary time and art.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4586-1

0-8166-7652-6

OCLC:

712015730