Real Deceptions - The Contemporary Reinvention of Realism

Real Deceptions develops a new theory of realism through close consideration of myriad contemporary art, media, and cultural practices. Rather than focusing on transgressing deceptions which distort reality, the book argues that reality lies within the deceptions themselves.

About the author

Jennifer Friedlander is the Edgar E. and Elizabeth S. Pankey Professor of Media Studies/Associate Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College. She authored Moving Pictures: Where the Police, the Press, and the Art Image Meet (Sheffield Hallam University Press, 1998) and Feminine Look: Sexuation, Spectatorship, and Subversion (State University of New York Press, 2008). She has published articles in Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture; CiNéMAS: Journal of Film Studies; Subjectivity; (Re)-turn: A Journal of Lacanian Studies; Journal for Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society; Subjectivity; and International Journal of Zizek Studies.

Summary

Real Deceptions develops a new theory of realism through close consideration of myriad contemporary art, media, and cultural practices. Rather than focusing on transgressing deceptions which distort reality, the book argues that reality lies within the deceptions themselves.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Friedlander, Jennifer (Professor of Media Studies Friedlander, Friedlander Jennifer
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9780190676124
• ISBN: 978-0-19-067612-4
• No. of pages: 168
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Television, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Film & Video, Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Gender studies, gender groups, Film history, theory or criticism