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Recording Reality, Desiring the Real on JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttsm8z

Recording Reality, Desiring the Real

Elizabeth Cowie

Series: Visible Evidence

Volume: 24
Copyright Date: 2011
Edition: NED - New edition
Published by: University of Minnesota Press
Pages: 232

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Front Matter (pp. i-vi)

Table of Contents (pp. vii-viii)

Acknowledgments (pp. ix-x)

Introduction: The Spectacle of Actuality and the Desire

for Reality (pp. 1-18)

Documentary, in presenting the sights and sounds of reality, enables

reality to “speak” at the same time as it “speaks about” reality. It thus
realizes the desire that cinematography inaugurated: of knowing
reality through its images and sounds, that is—figuratively—of
allowing reality to “speak for itself.” This book examines the
documentary film as a cinematic project that seeks to enable the
citizen-spectator to know and experience reality through recorded
images and sounds of reality. Closely linked to the development of
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