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Cinematic Illusions: Realism, Subjectivity, and the Avant-Garde
Author(s): Bert Cardullo (Author, Editor)
- Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Publication Date: 30 Nov. 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 210 pages
- ISBN-10: 1847183301
- ISBN-13: 9781847183309
Book Description
Cinematic Illusions: Realism, Subjectivity, and the Avant-Garde” is a collection of twelve essays arranged around the primordial subject of realism and anti-realism (the experimental or non-representational) in film. The book treats not only the issue of realism versus anti-realism in the cinema, but also a number of subjects related to this issue: sex; violence; the avant-garde; subjective response versus objective creation; and the New American Cinema versus Italian Neorealism and the French New Wave. In sum, Cinematic Illusions treats the subject of illusion from the point of view of the cinema’s unsurpassed ability to create not only the illusion of reality, but also the reality of illusion on the silver screen. There are a number of books that treat this subject from an abstract or theoretical point of view. The virtue of “Cinematic Illusions” is that it treats the subject in actual filmic practice and in highly readable yet at the same time subtly expressive prose. In combination with the subjects listed above, moreover, this collection of essays treats such major film directors as Robert Bresson, Vittorio De Sica, and Michelangelo Antonioni–each of whom, in his own way, confronted the question of what constitutes realism in the cinema.
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About the Author
Bert Cardullo is Professor of American Culture and Literature at Ege University in Izmir, Turkey. He is the editor, most recently, of “Satyajit Ray: Interviews,” and the author of “In Search of Cinema: Writings on International Film Art” and “American Drama/Critics: Writings and Readings.”
