Realism and the Audiovisual Media

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction PART I: THEORIZING REALISM World Cinema: Realism, Evidence, Presence; T.Elsaesser Whither Realism? Bazin Reconsidered; L.Grist On Brecht, Realism and the Media; M.Silberman Melodrama as Realism in Italian Neorealism; L.Bayman Scale and the Negotiation of 'Real' and 'Unreal' Space in the Cinema; M.A.Doane PART II: WORLD CINEMA AND NEW REALISMS Realism and Gus Van Sant's Elephant ; A.Rogers Observational Realism in Taiwan New Cinema; M-Y.T.Rawnsley Realism and National Identity in Y Tu Mamá También : An Audience Perspective; A.De La Garza A Journey through Time: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark and Theories of Mimesis; V.Strukov PART III: THE REALISM OF THE MEDIUM Realism, Real Sex and Experimental Cinema: Mediating Eroticism in Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye ; B.Johnson Breath Control: The Sound and Sight of Respiration as Hyper-Realist Corporeality in Breaking the Waves ; D.Quinlivan Ontology, Film and the Case of Eric Rohmer; J.Leigh Up the Junction : Ken Loach and TV Realism; C.Mello PART IV: DOCUMENTARY, TV AND THE ETHICS OF REPRESENTATION Filmmaking as the Production of Reality – A Study of Hara and Kobayashi's Documentaries; L.Nagib Character Construction in Brazilian Documentary Films: Modern Cinema, Classical Narrative and Micro-Realism; I.Xavier The Difficulty with Documentary; J.M.Salles Losing Grip on Reality – A Reflection on British Factual Television; D.Myers Notes Bibliography Index