The Reality Effect: Film Culture and the Graphic Imperative (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415937214)

It used to be only movies were on film; now the whole world is. The most intimate and most banal moments of our lives are constantly recorded for public consumption. In The Reality Effect, Joel Black argues that the desire to make visible every aspect of our lives is an impulse derived from cinema- one that has made life both more graphic and less "real." He approaches film as a documentary medium that has obscured-if not obliterated- the line between reality and fiction. To illustrate this effect, Black traces the uncanny interplay between movies and real-life events through a series of comparative analyses-from Lolita and the murder of JonBenét Ramsey to Wag the Dog and the Clinton scandal to Crash and Princess Diana's violent death.

Author: Joel Black
ISBN-10: 0415937213
ISBN-13: 9780415937214
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 11/16/2001
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.92h x 6.06w x 0.81d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/01/2001 pg. 125
Choice 06/01/2002 pg. 1778