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9780415937207

The Reality Effect: Film Culture and the Graphic Imperative

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415937207

  • ISBN10:

    0415937205

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-11-16
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

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. InThe Reality Effect,Joel Black argues that the 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 as a documentary medium that has obscured-if not obliterated- the line between reality and fiction. To illustrate this effect, Black traces the uncanny interplay between movies and real-life events through a series of comparative analyses-fromLolitaand the murder of JonBenet Ramsey toWag the Dogand the Clinton scandal toCrashand Princess Diana's violent death.

Table of Contents

introduction The Filmed Century 1(1)
Before (and Beyond) Art and Entertainment
1(6)
The Reality Effect
7(4)
Reality Bites Back: Kernel Truths
11(4)
From Cinema Verite to Reality TV
15(5)
Mediating Reality: Wag the Dog to War Games
20(4)
The Graphic Imperative
24(11)
part one film culture
Pornographic Science
35(26)
Missing Scenes: Coover's Casablanca
35(13)
Intrusive Scenes: Scorsese's Marriage Manual
48(4)
Freezing the Scene: Pynchon's Prehistory of Film
52(4)
Your Car's Mind
56(5)
Primal Scenes
61(24)
Questioning the Woman
61(3)
Films without Film
64(2)
Infantilizing the Viewer
66(3)
Hard-core Freud
69(9)
The Reality of Fantasy
78(3)
De Palma's Wolf Man
81(4)
Body Parts
85(26)
Multiple Images and Displaces Desire
85(2)
Split Persons and Body Doubles
87(2)
Shower Show: Dressed to Kill to Body Double
89(4)
The Erotics of Substitution: Vertigo to Body Double
93(5)
Vamps and Vampires
98(5)
Conjugal Adultery and Movie Children
103(8)
part two filmic events
Documenting Violence
111(34)
Serial Violence/Surveillance
111(7)
The Year of Filming Dangerously
118(3)
Hidden Figures: The Assassination Scene from Antonioni to Zapruder
121(9)
Surprise Executions
130(5)
Films that Kill
135(10)
Telling Stories
145(18)
``I Want You to See with My Eyes''
145(6)
Screening the Holocaust
151(3)
Screening Hollywood
154(4)
The Death of the Mind
158(5)
Showing the Obscene
163(34)
Time and the Unthinkable
163(6)
Releasing the Unreleasable
169(28)
Stealing Childhood: Lolita and JonBenet
169(5)
Death Imitates Art: Crash and Princess Diana
174(13)
Wagging the Dog: Sex, Lies, and the Clinton Videotapes
187(10)
part three film dreams
From Dream Work to DreamWorks
197(26)
Unreal Estate: Fake Towns, Real People
197(4)
Ants Wars
201(2)
Back to the Future: Movies, the Ride
203(3)
From the Moon to Mars: 2001 Then and Now
206(7)
The Color of Dreams
213(2)
Back to the Drawing Board: Movies, the Game
215(3)
Dream Worlds
218(5)
after word on the afterlife 223(6)
notes 229(42)
name and title index 271(10)
subject index 281

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