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Recording Reality, desiring the real

Cowie, Elizabeth (2011) Recording Reality, desiring the real. Visible Evidence . University of Minnesota press, Minnesota, USA, 296 pp. ISBN 978-0-8166-4549-7. (doi:10.5749/minnesota/9780816645480.001.0001) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:31728)

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Abstract

An examination of the history of documentary film and its contemporary forms showing how it has been simultaneously understood as factual, as story, as art, and as political. The book addresses the seeming paradox between the pleasures of spectacle in documentary and its project of informing and educating. It asks, if documentary is the desire to know reality through its images and sounds, what kind of speaking, and speaking about, emerges in documentary and how are we engaged by it, to know and to identify? The book examines as range of and video art. It argues for documentary's central place in cinema as both an art form and a form of social engagement. It considers documentary spectatorship in relation to a psychoanalytic understanding of desire, trauma, and draws on Foucault's account of knowledge.

Item Type: Book
DOI/Identification number: 10.5749/minnesota/9780816645480.001.0001
Subjects: N Visual Arts > N Visual arts (General). For photography, see TR
P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion Pictures
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Arts
Depositing User: Elizabeth Cowie
Date Deposited: 17 Oct 2012 16:49 UTC
Last Modified: 09 Mar 2023 11:32 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/31728 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Cowie, Elizabeth.

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