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The Reality Effect: Film Culture and the Graphic Imperative

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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 our ever-increasing 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 not as art or entertainment, but as a documentary medium that has obscured - if not obliterated - the line between reality and fiction. Black traces the uncanny interplay between movies and real-life events through a series of comparative analyses - from Lolita and the murder of JonBennet Ramsay to Wag the Dog and the Clinton scandal to Crash and Princess Diana's violent death. A work of both film theory and cultural criticism, The Reality Effect will change how you view our cinematic culture in which little is left to chance, nothing must appear to be unreal, and nothing can be left unseen.

Table of Contents:
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

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

Review :
"Drawing on a wide variety of materials and methods, Black offers an erudite and intriguing book, particularly when he examines how cinematic fictions have blended with such real-life events as murder and assasination, death by car crash, pedophilia and presidential scandal...his provocative discussion is recommended for both public and acadmeic libraries collecting in media and cultural studies. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers." -- Choice June 2002 "Recommended for film and media collections." -- LibraryJournal "Appropriately, 'virtuality' does not exist in my Spell Check, though no other concept so haunts contemporary art, media, and life. In his rich, lucid examination of 'the reality effect,' Joel Black describes the inroads made in our sense of the world by the ambiguities of representation." -- Wendy Steiner, author of Venus inExile "Joel Black must now stand as one of America's top cultural critics. The Reality Effect moves effortlessly between the highbrow theory of Freud and Lacan and the low, low genres of pornography and snuff films, providing dazzling insights into such promoters of the 'graphic imperative' as Oliver Stone, Brian De Palma, Abe Zapruder and Reality TV along the way." -- Steven Jay Schneider, New York University "Recommended for film and media collections." -- LibraryJournal


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780415937207
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 296
  • Weight: 634 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0415937205
  • Publisher Date: 16 Nov 2001
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Film Culture and the Graphic Imperative
  • Width: 152 mm


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