Regarding the Real

Cinema, Documentary, and the Visual Arts

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by Des O'Rawe

Type

Studies

Subject

Genre > Documentary

Keywords

documentary, arts

Publishing date

2016

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 208 pages
5 ¼ x 8 ¼ inches (13.5 x 21 cm)

ISBN

978-0-7190-9966-3

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Book Presentation:
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.

About the Author:
Des O'Rawe teaches Film Studies in the School of Creative Arts, Queen's University of Belfast

See the publisher website: Manchester University Press