The Spectacle of the Real: From Hollywood to 'Reality' TV and Beyond [NOOK Book]

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Hollywood special effects offer spectacular creations or re-creations that make claims to our attention on the grounds of their 'incredible-seeming reality'.

They can appear both 'incredible' and 'real', their appeal based on their ability to 'convince'-to appear real in terms such as detail and texture-and on their status as fabricated spectacle, to be admired as such. At a seemingly very different end of the audio-visual media spectrum, ...
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The Spectacle of the Real: From Hollywood to 'Reality' TV and Beyond

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Overview



Hollywood special effects offer spectacular creations or re-creations that make claims to our attention on the grounds of their 'incredible-seeming reality'.

They can appear both 'incredible' and 'real', their appeal based on their ability to 'convince'-to appear real in terms such as detail and texture-and on their status as fabricated spectacle, to be admired as such. At a seemingly very different end of the audio-visual media spectrum, 'reality' television offers the spectacle of, supposedly, the 'real' itself, a 'reality' that ranges from the banality of the quotidian to intense interpersonal engagements (two extremes experienced in Big Brother, for example). The two also overlap, however, nowhere more clearly and jarringly than in the ultimate 'spectacle of the real', the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York, live television coverage of which evoked constant comparison with big-screen fictional images.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781841509181
  • Publisher: Intellect
  • Publication date: 7/30/2012
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • File size: 3 MB

Table of Contents

Preface 9
Introduction : the spectacle of the real 13
1 Media culture and the triumph of the spectacle 23
2 Real time, catastrophe, spectacle : reality as fantasy in live media 37
3 'Just like a movie'? : 9/11 and Hollywood spectacle 47
4 Reframing fantasy : September 11 and the global audience 59
5 Teratology of the spectacle 71
6 Caught on tape : a legacy of low-tech reality 83
7 Love 'n the real; or, how I learned to love reality TV 93
8 Looking inside : showing medical operations on ordinary television 105
9 Hell in a cell and other stories : violence, endangerment and authenticity in professional wrestling 117
10 Docobricolage in the age of simulation 129
11 A production designer's cinema : historical authenticity in popular films set in the past 139
12 The new spatial dynamics of the bullet-time effect 151
13 'I was dreaming I was awake and then I woke up and found myself asleep' : dreaming, spectacle and reality in Waking life 161
14 Cannibal Holocaust and the pornography of death 173
15 Beyond the Blair witch : a new horror aesthetic? 187
16 Spectres and capitalism / spectacle and the horror film 201
17 Looking on : troubling spectacles and the complicitous spectator 213
18 The enigma of the real : the qualifications for real sex in contemporary art cimema 223
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