Reality Transformed: Film and Meaning and Technique

by Irving Singer

Book Overview

A new look at film that succeeds in combining the realist and formalist sides of an ongoing debate.

In Reality Transformed Irving Singer offers a new approach to the philosophy of film. Returning to the classical debate between realists and formalists, he shows how the opposing positions may be harmonized and united. Singer concentrates on questions about appearance and reality, the visual and the literary, and the interplay between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262692481
• ISBN13: 9780262692489
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher