World cinema and the ethics of realism
By: Lucia Nagib
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781441137838; 9781441165831
Subjects: Motion pictures; Moral and ethical aspects; Realism in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-278) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Physical cinema. The end of the other; title: The immaterial difference : Werner Herzog revisited; title: The reality of the medium. Conceptual realism in Land in trance and I am Cuba; title: The work of art in progress : an analysis of delicate crime; title: The ethics of desire. The realm of the senses, the ethical imperative and the politics of pleasure; title: Hara and Kobayashi's "private documentaries"; title: The self-performing auteur : ethics in João César Monteiro.