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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797066003321

Autore

Sterba Wendy <1955->

Titolo

Reel photos : balancing art and truth in contemporary film / / Wendy Sterba

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, [Maryland] : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4422-4524-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/657

Soggetti

Photography in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Nota di contenuto

The loss of photographic objectivity: Anonioni's Blowup -- The photograph in the inverted noir film: love crimes -- Photographic evidence and detecting truth -- Alice in furs -- Media hype and Mona Lisa -- The portrait photographer: Pecker, The governess and closer -- Change in concept, circuits and the hyperreal: papparazzi, Strange days and somebody has to shoot the picture -- Strange loops dystopian films from Invisible adversaries to Inception -- Over the edge? the photograph and The circuit -- Adorno, Benjamin and hope for the photograph, In the good night -- Filmography.