The Reality Effect

Film Culture and the Graphic Imperative
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-415-93720-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 585 g

It used to be only movies were on film; now the whole world is. The most intimate and most banal moments of our lives are constantly recorded for public consumption. In The Reality Effect, Joel Black argues that the desire to make visible every aspect of our lives is an impulse derived from cinema- one that has made life both more graphic and less "real." He approaches film as a documentary medium that has obscured-if not obliterated- the line between reality and fiction. To illustrate this effect, Black traces the uncanny interplay between movies and real-life events through a series of comparative analyses-from Lolita and the murder of JonBenét Ramsey to Wag the Dog and the Clinton scandal to Crash and Princess Diana's violent death.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Black, Joel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Filmed Century Before (and Beyond) Art and Entertainment The Reality Effect Reality Bites Back: Kernel Truths From Cinema Verité to Reality TV Mediating Reality: Wag the Dog to War Games The Graphic Imperative Part I: Film Culture One: Pornographic Science Missing Scenes: Coover's CasablancaIntrusive Scenes: Scorsese's Marriage ManualFreezing the Scene: Pynchon's Prehistory of FilmYour Car's Mind Two: Primal ScenesQuestioning the Woman Films Without FilmInfantilizing the Viewer Hard-core Freud The Reality of Fantasy De Palma's Wolf Man Three: Body Parts Multiple Images and Displaced Desire Split Persons and Body Doubles Shower Show: Dressed to Kill to Body Double The Erotics of Substitution: Vertigo to Body DoubleVamps and VampiresConjugal Adultery and Movie Children Part II: Filmic Events Four: Documenting Violence Serial Violence/Surveillance The Year of Filming DangerouslyHidden Figures: The Assassination Scene from Antonioni to Zapruder Surprise Executions Films that Kill Five: Telling Stories I Want You to See with My EyesScreening the Holocaust Screening Hollywood The Death of the Mind Six: Showing the ObsceneTime and the Unthinkable Releasing the UnreleasableStealing Childhood: Lolita to JonBenétDeath Imitates Art: Crash and Princess DianaWagging the Dog; Sex, Lies, and the Clinton VideotapesPart III: Film DreamsSeven: From Dream Work to DreamWorks Unreal Estate: Fake Towns, Real People Ants Wars Back to the Future: Movies, the Ride From the Moon to Mars: 2001 Then and NowThe Color of Dreams Back to the Drawing Board: Movies, the GameDream Worlds Afterword on the Afterlife Notes Name and Title Index Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joel Black teaches comparative literature and film at the University of Georgia. He is the author of The Aesthetics of Murder: A Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture (1991).