Real to reel : a new approach to understanding realism in film and TV fiction / Martin Sohn-Rethel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sohn-Rethel, Martin, -2016, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Realism in motion pictures.

Realism on television.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leighton Buzzard : Auteur, [2015]

Summary:

What happens when we watch feature films or television dramas? Many of our responses to moving-image fiction texts embody "realism or "truth, but what are we responding to, exactly, and how is our notion of reality or truth to be understood? For film and media students and makers of moving-image fiction in new digital forms, the question of how to get a more objective, rigorous handle on realism has never been more important. In this accessible book, Martin Sohn-Rethel brings a lifetime of teaching film and media to bear on developing a new approach to analyzing the "realism of the moving image: a set of seven "codes that plot this tricky field of enquiry more systematically. In doing so, he considers a wide range of film and media texts chosen for their accessibility, including Do the Right Thing (1989), In the Name of the Father (1993), Erin Brokovich (2000), and District 9 (2009).

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1. Realism in TV Drama; 2. Social (or documentary) realism in feature film; 3. Social realism continued: The special case of The Lives of Others; 4. Social realism continued: Some key re-inventions; 5. The genre code of realism: The recent development of the alien invasion movie; 6. The narrative code of realism: The case of the 'multi-strand epic'; 7. The code of psychology and character motivation; 8. The code of discursive or ideological truth; Post-script: The 'counter-realism' code of institutional constraint; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781800850712

1800850719

9781911325215

1911325213

OCLC:

946627001