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Documentary Across Disciplines
Erika (Ed) Balsom
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Description for Documentary Across Disciplines
Paperback. Editor(s): Balsom, Erika; Peleg, Hila. Num Pages: 320 pages, 40 b&w illus. BIC Classification: ACXJ8; JFDV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 140. .
Artists, filmmakers, art historians, poets, literary critics, anthropologists, theorists, and others, investigate one of the most vital areas of cultural practice: documentary. Contemporary engagements with documentary are multifaceted and complex, reaching across disciplines to explore the intersections of politics and aesthetics, representation and reality, truth and illusion. Discarding the old notions of fly on the wall immediacy or quasi-scientific aspirations to objectivity, critics now understand documentary not as the neutral picturing of reality but as a way of coming to terms with reality through images and narrative. This book collects writings by artists, filmmakers, art ... Read more
Artists, filmmakers, art historians, poets, literary critics, anthropologists, theorists, and others, investigate one of the most vital areas of cultural practice: documentary. Contemporary engagements with documentary are multifaceted and complex, reaching across disciplines to explore the intersections of politics and aesthetics, representation and reality, truth and illusion. Discarding the old notions of fly on the wall immediacy or quasi-scientific aspirations to objectivity, critics now understand documentary not as the neutral picturing of reality but as a way of coming to terms with reality through images and narrative. This book collects writings by artists, filmmakers, art ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262529068
SKU
V9780262529068
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About Erika (Ed) Balsom
Erika Balsom is a Lecturer in Film Studies and Liberal Arts at King's College London and the author of Exhibition Cinema in Contemporary Art. Hila Peleg is a curator and filmmaker based in Berlin and the founder and artistic director of the Berlin Documentary Forum.
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