Drawn from Life: Issues and Themes in Animated Documentary Cinema (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781474431828)

Documentary cinema has always drawn from real life, but an increasing number of contemporary filmmakers are going further still, drawing onscreen images of reality through a range of animated filmmaking techniques. Drawn from Life is the first book to explore the field of animated documentaries from a diverse range of scholarly and practice-based perspectives, exploring and proposing answers to a range of questions that preoccupy twenty-first-century film artists and audiences alike:

• Why use animation to document?
• How do such images reflect and influence our understanding and experience of reality, whether public or private, psychological or political?

From early cinema to present-day scientific research, military uses, digital art and gaming, this book casts new light on the capacity of the moving image to act as a record of the world around us, challenging the orthodox definitions of documentary cinema.

Author: Jonathan Murray
ISBN-10: 1474431828
ISBN-13: 9781474431828
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/25/2020
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.70d