Realism and the Audiovisual Media

Realism and the Audiovisual Media is a major and entirely original contribution to contemporary scholarship on realism. Once dismissed as representative of narrative closure and bourgeois ideology, realism has made a remarkable comeback in recent years as a predominant trend in world cinema and television productions as well as topical line of enquiry in audiovisual theory. This book provides the first organized and comprehensive assessment of these developments, making it an indispensable read for anyone interested in film and media studies.

Subjects covered include new developments in realist scholarship; new realisms in world cinema realist schools and genres; sensation, the body and real sex in cinema; cinematic scale and the real; the production reality and the ethics of representation in film and television. A wide range of case studies survey past and current tendencies in Korean, Italian, German, Russian, Mexican, Brazilian, American, Taiwanese, French, Japanese and British film and television.