A Certain Realism

Author : Maurizio Viano
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1993-07-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520912616

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A Certain Realism by Maurizio Viano Pdf

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was arguably the most complex director of postwar Italian cinema. His films—Accattone, The Canterbury Tales, Medea, Saló—continue to challenge and entertain new generations of moviegoers. A leftist, a homosexual, and a distinguished writer of fiction, poetry, and criticism, Pasolini once claimed that "a certain realism" informed his filmmaking. Masterfully combining analyses of Pasolini's literary and theoretical writings and of all his films, Maurizio Viano offers the first thorough study of Pasolini's cinematic realism, in theory and in practice. He finds that Pasolini's cinematic career exemplifies an "expressionistic realism" that acknowledges its subjective foundation instead of striving for an impossible objectivity. Focusing on the personal and expressionistic dimensions of Pasolini's cinema, Viano also argues that homosexuality is present in the films in ways that critics have thus far failed to acknowledge. Sure to generate controversy among film scholars, Italianists, and fans of the director's work, this accessible film-by-film treatment is an ideal companion for anyone watching Pasolini's films on video.

Author : Maurizio Sanzio Viano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1086542974

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A Certain Realism by Maurizio Sanzio Viano Pdf

Author : British Film Institute
Publisher : London : Routledge & K. Paul : British Film Institute
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015019207326

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Realism and the Cinema by British Film Institute Pdf

This reader brings together the principal arguments in the long-standing and often tortuous debate about realism in the cinema, linking them with a critical commentary which elucidates their dramatic and political character.

Author : Ivone Margulies
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822384618

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Rites of Realism by Ivone Margulies Pdf

Rites of Realism shifts the discussion of cinematic realism away from the usual focus on verisimilitude and faithfulness of record toward a notion of "performative realism," a realism that does not simply represent a given reality but enacts actual social tensions. These essays by a range of film scholars propose stimulating new approaches to the critical evaluation of modern realist films and such referential genres as reenactment, historical film, adaptation, portrait film, and documentary. By providing close readings of classic and contemporary works, Rites of Realism signals the need to return to a focus on films as the main innovators of realist representation. The collection is inspired by André Bazin's theories on film's inherent heterogeneity and unique ability to register contingency (the singular, one-time event). This volume features two new translations: of Bazin's seminal essay "Death Every Afternoon" and Serge Daney's essay reinterpreting Bazin's defense of the long shot as a way to set the stage for a clash or risky confrontation between man and animal. These pieces evince key concerns—particularly the link between cinematic realism and contingency—that the other essays explore further. Among the topics addressed are the provocative mimesis of Luis Buñuel's Land Without Bread; the adaptation of trial documents in Carl Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc; the use of the tableaux vivant by Wim Wenders and Peter Greenaway; and Pier Paolo Pasolini's strategies of analogy in his transposition of The Gospel According to St. Matthew from Palestine to southern Italy. Essays consider the work of filmmakers including Michelangelo Antonioni, Maya Deren, Mike Leigh, Cesare Zavattini, Zhang Yuan, and Abbas Kiarostami. Contributors: Paul Arthur, André Bazin, Mark A. Cohen, Serge Daney, Mary Ann Doane, James F. Lastra, Ivone Margulies, Abé Mark Normes, Brigitte Peucker, Richard Porton, Philip Rosen, Catherine Russell, James Schamus, Noa Steimatsky, Xiaobing Tang

Author : Paul Dicken
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472575890

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A Critical Introduction to Scientific Realism by Paul Dicken Pdf

What are the reasons for believing scientific theories to be true? The contemporary debate around scientific realism exposes questions about the very nature of scientific knowledge. A Critical Introduction to Scientific Realism explores and advances the main topics of the debate, allowing epistemologists to make new connections with the philosophy of science. Moving from its origins in logical positivism to some of the most recent issues discussed in the literature, this critical introduction covers the no-miracles argument, the pessimistic meta-induction and structural realism. Placing arguments in their historical context, Paul Dicken approaches scientific realism debate as a particular instance of our more general epistemological investigations. The recurrent theme is that the scientific realism debate is in fact a pseudo-philosophical question. Concerned with the methodology of the scientific realism debate, Dicken asks what it means to offer an epistemological assessment of our scientific practices. Taking those practices as a guide to our epistemological reflections, A Critical Introduction to Scientific Realism fills a gap in current introductory texts and presents a fresh approach to understanding a crucial debate.

Author : Frank B. Farrell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521568323

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Subjectivity, Realism, and Postmodernism by Frank B. Farrell Pdf

This unusually accessible account of recent Anglo-American philosophy focuses on how that philosophy has challenged deeply held notions of subjectivity, mind, and language. The book is designed on a broad canvas in which recent arguments are placed in a historical context (in particular they are related to medieval philosophy and German idealism). The author then explores such topics as mental content, moral realism, realism and antirealism, and the character of subjectivity. Much of the book is devoted to an investigation of Donald Davidson's philosophy, and there is also a sustained critique of the position of Richard Rorty. A final chapter defends the realist position against objections from postmodern thought. As a rigorous and historically sensitive account of recent philosophy, this book should enjoy a wide readership among philosophers of many different persuasions, literary theorists, and social scientists who have been influenced by postmodern thought.

Author : Joe B. Fulton
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826211445

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Mark Twain's Ethical Realism by Joe B. Fulton Pdf

Mark Twain's Ethical Realism is the only work that looks specifically at how Twain blends ethical and aesthetic concerns in the act of composing his novels. Fulton conducts a spirited discussion regarding these concepts, and his explanation of how they relate to Twain's writing helps to clarify the complexities of his creative genius.

Author : Raymond Tallis
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803294352

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In Defence of Realism by Raymond Tallis Pdf

In Defence of Realism is a powerful indictment of the fog of bad philosophy and worse linguistics that has shrouded much contemporary literary theory and criticism. Raymond Tallis, one of the most important critics of post-Saussurean literary theory in the English-speaking world, examines the reasons often cited by critics and theorists for believing that realism in fiction is impossible and verisimilitude a mere literary ?effect.? He clearly demonstrates not only that the arguments of critics hostile to realism are invalid, but that even if they were sound, they would apply equally to anti-realist fiction, indeed to all intelligible discourse.

Author : Patrick Greenough,Michael Patrick Lynch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199288887

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Truth and Realism by Patrick Greenough,Michael Patrick Lynch Pdf

Is truth objective or relative? What exists independently of our minds? This book is about these two questions. The essays in its pages variously defend and critique answers to each, grapple over the proper methodology for addressing them, and wonder whether either question is worth pursuing. In so doing, they carry on a long and esteemed tradition - for our two questions are among the oldest of philosophical issues, and have vexed almost every major philosopher, from Plato, to Kant to Wittgenstein. Fifteen eminent contributors bring fresh perspectives, renewed energy and original answers to debates which have been the focus of a tremendous amount of interest in the last three decades both within philosophy and the culture at large.

Author : Toral Jatin Gajarawala
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823245246

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Untouchable Fictions: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste by Toral Jatin Gajarawala Pdf

Untouchable Fictions considers the crisis of literary realism--progressive, rural, regionalist, experimental--in order to derive a literary genealogy for the recent explosion of Dalit ("untouchable caste") fiction. Drawing on a wide array of writings from Premchand and Renu in Hindi to Mulk Raj Anand and V. S. Naipaul in English, Gajarawala illuminates the dark side of realist complicity: a hidden aesthetics and politics of caste. How does caste color the novel? What are its formal tendencies? What generic constraints does it produce?

Author : Stathis Psillos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134619825

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Scientific Realism by Stathis Psillos Pdf

Scientific realism is the optimistic view that modern science is on the right track. This book argues that the history of science does not undermine this notion, suggesting it as the best philosophical account of science.

Author : Aaron Matz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139488310

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Satire in an Age of Realism by Aaron Matz Pdf

As nineteenth-century realism became more and more intrepid in its pursuit of describing and depicting everyday life, it blurred irrevocably into the caustic and severe mode of literature better named satire. Realism's task of portraying the human became indistinguishable from satire's directive to castigate the human. Introducing an entirely new way of thinking about realism and the Victorian novel, Aaron Matz refers to the fusion of realism and satire as 'satirical realism': it is a mode in which our shared folly and error are so entrenched in everyday life, and so unchanging, that they need no embellishment when rendered in fiction. Focusing on the novels of Eliot, Hardy, Gissing, and Conrad, and the theater of Ibsen, Matz argues that it was the transformation of Victorian realism into satire that granted it immense moral authority, but that led ultimately to its demise.

Author : Dorit A. Ganson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136712043

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The Explanationist Defense of Scientific Realism by Dorit A. Ganson Pdf

Ganson offers new hope in this work for the defense of scientific realism by undermining powerful anti-realist objections and advocating an abandonment of naturalist and externalist strategies.

Author : Margaret Archer,Roy Bhaskar,Andrew Collier,Tony Lawson,Alan Norrie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136287251

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Critical Realism by Margaret Archer,Roy Bhaskar,Andrew Collier,Tony Lawson,Alan Norrie Pdf

Critical realism is a movement in philosophy and the human sciences most closely associated with the work of Roy Bhaskar. Since the publication of Bhaskars A Realist Theory of Science, critical realism has had a profound influence on a wide range of subjects. This reader makes accessible, in one volume, key readings to stimulate debate about and within critical realism. It explores the following themes: * transcendental realist * the theory of explanatory critique * dialectics * Bhaskar's critical naturalist philosophy of science.

Author : R. Nola
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400928770

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Relativism and Realism in Science by R. Nola Pdf

The institutionalization of History and Philosophy of Science as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour began comparatively earl- though not always under that name - in the Australasian region. An initial lecturing appointment was made at the University of Melbourne immediately after the Second World War, in 1946, and other appoint ments followed as the subject underwent an expansion during the 1950s and 1960s similar to that which took place in other parts of the world. Today there are major Departments at the University of Melbourne, the University of New South Wales and the University of Wollongong, and smaller groups active in many other parts of Australia and in New Zealand. "Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science" aims to provide a distinctive publication outlet for Australian and New Zealand scholars working in the general area of history, philosophy and social studies of science. Each volume comprises a group of essays on a connected theme, edited by an Australian or a New Zealander with special expertise in that particular area. Papers address general issues, however, rather than local ones; parochial topics are avoided. Further more, though in each volume a majority of the contributors is from Australia or New Zealand, contributions from elsewhere are by no means ruled out. Quite the reverse, in fact - they are actively encour aged wherever appropriate to the balance of the volume in question.