Regarding the real: Cinema, documentary, and the visual arts

by Des O'Rawe

Overview

Regarding the real develops an original approach to documentary film, focusing on its aesthetic relations to visual arts such as animation, assemblage, photography, painting and architecture. Throughout, the book considers the work of figures whose preferred film language is associative and fragmentary, and for whom the documentary is an endlessly open form; an unstable expressive phenomenon that cannot help but interrogate its own narratives and intentions.

Combining close analysis with cultural history, the book re—assesses the influence of the modern arts in subverting structures of realism typically associated with the documentary. In the course of its discussion, it charts a fascinating path that leads from Len Lye to Hiroshi Teshigahara, and includes along the way figures such as Joseph Cornell, Johan van der Keuken, William Klein, Jean—Luc Godard, Jonas Mekas and Raymond Depardon.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780719099663
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	01/20/2016
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 5.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Des O’Rawe is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies in the School of Arts, English and Languages at Queen’s UniversityBelfast

Table of Contents

List of illustrations page viii

Acknowledgements x

Introduction 1

1 Suspended animation 11

2 Somewhere in the city 32

3 Questioning the frame 61

4 Eclectic dialectics 89

5 One plus one (p.m.) 111

6 Journey to Central Park 140

7 Architectures of vision 161

Bibliography 178

Index 189