Black The Reality Effect

Film Culture and the Graphic Imperative
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-35432-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

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 Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

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 Casablanca
Intrusive Scenes: Scorsese's Marriage Manual
Freezing the Scene: Pynchon's Prehistory of Film
Your Car's Mind
Two: Primal Scenes
Questioning the Woman
Films Without Film
Infantilizing 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 Double
Vamps and Vampires
Conjugal Adultery and Movie Children
Part II: Filmic Events
Four: Documenting Violence
Serial Violence/Surveillance
The Year of Filming Dangerously
Hidden Figures: The Assassination Scene from Antonioni to Zapruder
Surprise Executions
Films that Kill
Five: Telling Stories
"I Want You to See with My Eyes"
Screening the Holocaust
Screening Hollywood
The Death of the Mind
Six: Showing the Obscene
Time and the Unthinkable
Releasing the Unreleasable
Stealing Childhood: Lolita to JonBenét
Death Imitates Art: Crash and Princess Diana
Wagging the Dog; Sex, Lies, and the Clinton Videotapes
Part III: Film Dreams
Seven: 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 Now
The Color of Dreams
Back to the Drawing Board: Movies, the Game
Dream 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).