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Reel photos : balancing art and truth in contemporary film / Wendy Sterba.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sterba, Wendy, 1955- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Photography in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (223 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Even in an age when the photograph has changed from a physical object into a data file that can be easily manipulated, we tend to believe what we see.But photographs can and do lie.
- Contents:
- The loss of photographic objectivity: Anonioni's Blowup
- The photograph in the inverted noir film: love crimes
- Photographic evidence and detecting truth
- Alice in furs
- Media hype and Mona Lisa
- The portrait photographer: Pecker, The governess and closer
- Change in concept, circuits and the hyperreal: papparazzi, Strange days and somebody has to shoot the picture
- Strange loops dystopian films from Invisible adversaries to Inception
- Over the edge? the photograph and The circuit
- Adorno, Benjamin and hope for the photograph, In the good night
- Filmography.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes filmography (pages 187-190).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-196) and index.
- Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-8182-375-7
- 1-4422-4524-7
- OCLC:
- 904281336
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