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Reality transformed : film as meaning and technique / Irving Singer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 216 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585003165
  • 9780585003160
  • 0262283662
  • 9780262283663
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reality transformed.DDC classification:
  • 791.43/01 21
LOC classification:
  • PN1995 .S513 1998eb
Other classification:
  • 24.31
  • AP 45400
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: Realism vs. Formalism -- Appearance and Reality -- The Purple Rose of Cairo -- The Visual and the Literary -- Death in Venice -- Communication and Alienation -- The Rules of the Game -- Conclusion: Cinematic Transformation.
Summary: In Reality Transformed Irving Singer offers a new approach to the philosophy of film. Returning to the classical debate between realists and formalists, he shows how the opposing positions may be harmonized and united. He accepts the realist claim that films somehow "capture" reality, but agrees with the formalist belief that they transform it. Extending his earlier work on meaning in art and life, he suggests that the meaningfulness of movies derives from techniques that re-create reality in the process of presenting it to viewers who have learned how to appreciate the aesthetics of cinematic transformation.
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In Reality Transformed Irving Singer offers a new approach to the philosophy of film. Returning to the classical debate between realists and formalists, he shows how the opposing positions may be harmonized and united. He accepts the realist claim that films somehow "capture" reality, but agrees with the formalist belief that they transform it. Extending his earlier work on meaning in art and life, he suggests that the meaningfulness of movies derives from techniques that re-create reality in the process of presenting it to viewers who have learned how to appreciate the aesthetics of cinematic transformation.

Introduction: Realism vs. Formalism -- Appearance and Reality -- The Purple Rose of Cairo -- The Visual and the Literary -- Death in Venice -- Communication and Alienation -- The Rules of the Game -- Conclusion: Cinematic Transformation.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and index.

Print version record.

English.

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