From the 1910s to the emergence of structuralism and post-structuralism in the 1960s, the writings of John Grierson, Siegfried Kracauer, Andre Bazin and Georg L
This book suggests ways forward for a new series of studies in cinematic realism, and for a new form of film theory based on realism, stressing the importance o
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Reality has become an increasingly prominent topic in contemporary philosophy. The book’s contributors are responding to the challenge to use the philosophica