Argues that cinema creates realities, rather than merely representing or reproducing them, through the work of film theorists André Bazin, Christian Metz, Stanley Cavell, Gilles Deleuze, Slavoj Zizek, and Jacques Rancière.
By formulating a notion of 'filmic reality', The reality of film offers new ways of understanding our relationship with cinema. It argues that cinema does not merely refer to, reproduce or represent reality, but has the capacity to create its own kinds of realities. Filmic reali…
Argues that cinema creates realities, rather than merely representing or reproducing them, through the work of film theorists André Bazin, Christian Metz, Stanley Cavell, Gilles Deleuze, Slavoj Zizek, and Jacques Rancière.
"The Eyes Have It explores those rarified screen moments when viewers are confronted by sights that seem at once impossible and present, artificial and stimulating, illusory and definitive. Beginning with a penetrating study of five cornfield sequences Murray Pomerance journeys …
"The Eyes Have It explores those rarified screen moments when viewers are confronted by sights that seem at once impossible and present, artificial and stimulating, illusory and definitive. Beginning with a penetrating study of five cornfield sequences--including The Wizard of O…