{"product_id":"recording-reality-desiring-the-real-paperback","title":"Recording Reality, Desiring the Real - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Cowie\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDocumentary has once again emerged as one of the most vital cultural forms, whether seen in cinemas or inside the home, as digital, film, or video. In \u003ci\u003eRecording Reality, Desiring the Real\u003c\/i\u003e, Elizabeth Cowie looks at the history of documentary and its contemporary forms, showing how it has been simultaneously understood as factual, as story, as art, and as political, addressing the seeming paradox between the pleasures of spectacle in the documentary and its project of informing and educating. \u003cbr\u003e Cowie claims that, as a radical film form, documentary has been a way for filmmakers to acknowledge historical and contemporary realities by presenting images of these realities. If documentary is the desire to know reality through its images and sounds, she asks, what kind of speaking (and speaking about) emerges in documentary, and how are we engaged by it? In considering this and other questions, Cowie examines a range of noteworthy films, including Spike Lee's \u003ci\u003eWhen the Levees Broke\u003c\/i\u003e, John Huston's \u003ci\u003eLet There Be Light\u003c\/i\u003e, and Milica Tomic's \u003ci\u003ePortrait of My Mother\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Recording Reality, Desiring the Real\u003c\/i\u003e stakes documentary's central place in cinema as both an art form and a form of social engagement, which together create a new understanding of spectatorship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Cowie is professor of film studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 10.01 x 7.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 02, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464542044413,"sku":"9780816645497","price":57.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/pMXqRrA2Tr9780816645497.webp?v=1777261411","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/recording-reality-desiring-the-real-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}