Spectacle of the real [[electronic resource] ] : from Hollywood to reality TV and beyond / / edited by Geoff King

• Pubblicazione: Bristol ; ; Portland, : Intellect Books, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (236 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.45/6
• Soggetto topico: Mass media - Study and teaching; Reality television programs
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: KingGeoff
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; 'Introduction: The Spectacle of the Real' Geoff King; 1. 'Media Culture and the Triumph of the Spectacle' Douglas Kellner; 2. 'Real Time, Catastrophe, Spectacle: Rality as a FAntasy Live Media' Lee Rodney; 3.'"" Just Like a Movie""?: 9/11 and Hollywood Spectacle' Geoff King; 4.' Reframing Fantasy: September 11 and the Global Audience' Kathy Smith; 5. 'Teratology of the Spectacle' Dean Lockwood; 6. 'Caught on Tape: A legacy of Low-tech Reality' Amy West; 7. ' Love 'n the Real; or, How I learned to Love Reality TV' Misha Kavka ; 8.' Looking Inside: Showing Medical Operations on Ordinary Television' Frances Bonner9.' Hell in a Cell and Other Stories: Violence, Endangerment and Authenticity in Professional Wrestling' Leon Hunt; 10.' Docobricolage in the Age of Simulation' Bernadette Flynn; 11. A Production Desogner's Cinema: Historical Authenticity in Popular Films Set in the Past' Michele Pierson; 12. The New Spatial Dynamics of the Bullet-Time effect' Lisa Purse; 13. ""I was dreaming I was awake and then I woke up and found myself asleep': Dreaming spectacle and reality in Waking Life' Paul Ward ; 14. Cannibal Holocaust and the Pornography of Death' Julian Petley15.'Beyond the Blair Witch: A New Horror Aesthetic?' Peg Aloi; 16. ' Spectres and Capitalism, Spectacle and the Horror Film' Mike Wayne; 17. 'Looking On: Troubling Spectacles and the Complictous Spectator' Michele Aaron; 18. The enigma of the Real: The Qualifications for Real sex in Contemporary Art Cinema' Tanya Krzywinska
• Sommario/riassunto: Hollywood special effects offer spectacular creations or re-creations that make claims to our attention on the grounds of their 'incredible-seeming reality'. They can appear both 'incredible' and 'real', their appeal based on their ability to 'convince'-to appear real in terms such as detail and texture-and on their status as fabricated spectacle, to be admired as such. At a seemingly very different end of the audio-visual media spectrum, 'reality' television offers the spectacle of, supposedly, the 'real' itself, a 'reality' that ranges from the banality of the quotidian to intense interperso
• Titolo autorizzato: Spectacle of the real
• ISBN: 1-280-47700-8; 9786610477005; 1-84150-918-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450266803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II