Truth or dare
Subtitle: art & documentary
By: edited by Gail Pearce & Cahal McLaughlin
Contributors: Whitechapel Art Gallery; Tate Modern (Gallery); ebrary, Inc
Publisher: Intellect
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bristol, UK; Chicago
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 139
ISBN-13: 9781841501758; 9781841509976
Subjects: Documentary mass media and the arts; Documentary films; Congresses
Description: The new wave of documentaries that prominently feature their filmmakers, such as the works of Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock, have attracted fresh, new audiences to the form but they have also drawn criticism that documentaries now promote entertainment at the expense of truth. Truth or Dare examines the clash between the authenticity claimed by documentaries and their association with imagination and experimental contemporary art. An experienced group of practitioners, artists, and theorists here question this binary, and the idea of documentary itself, in a cross-disciplinary volume that will force us to reconsider how competing interests shape filmmaking.
Notes: "Truth or dare: art and documentary was a conference and a set of screenings that took place during February 2006 at the Whitechapel Art Gallery and Tate Modern."--P. 9.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-131] and index.

Electronic reproduction. [Palo Alto, Calif.] : ebrary, 2007. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Title from title screen; description based on content as of May 15, 2008. Access restricted to ebrary affiliated libraries. Also available in print.