{"product_id":"reality-transformed-film-as-meaning-and-technique-irving-singer","title":"Reality Transformed: Film as Meaning and Technique \/ Irving Singer","description":"\u003cp\u003eMIT Press. Trade pb. Remainder. VG. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor the last thirty years film theory has been dominated by \"grand theories\" that examine motion pictures from a psychoanalytic, semiotic, or Marxist point of view. Few American philosophers have written about the nature and aesthetics of cinema. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eReality Transformed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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. He accepts the realist claim that films somehow \"capture\" reality, but agrees with the formalist belief that they transform it. Extending his earlier work on meaning in art and life, he suggests that the meaningfulness of movies derives from techniques that re-create reality in the process of presenting it to viewers who have learned how to appreciate the aesthetics of cinematic transformation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSinger concentrates on questions about appearance and reality, the visual and the literary, and the interplay between communication as a goal and alienation as a hazard in films of every sort. In three exemplary chapters, he provides suggestive readings of Woody Allen's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Purple Rose of Cairo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Luchino Visconti's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDeath in Venice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and Jean Renoir's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Rules of the Game\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eReality Transformed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e will interest the general reader as well as students in all fields related to film studies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Desierto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55960468291750,"sku":null,"price":24.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0659\/3465\/5654\/files\/reality.webp?v=1764202917","url":"https:\/\/249f2c-1b.myshopify.com\/products\/reality-transformed-film-as-meaning-and-technique-irving-singer","provider":"DESIERTO BOOKS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}