Description
Book SynopsisExplores the intersection between movies, reality, and fantasy; between subjective and objective representation. The book shows that surreal fantasies ground their images, sounds, and narratives in quotidian reality. On the other hand, even the most realistic documentaries rely on creative structures that are products of the human imagination.
Trade Review"Plantinga gives us a unique, bold and incisive account of how movies blend reality and fantasy, conjoining soaring realms of the imagination with the empirical frames of everyday reality."
— Stephen Prince, author of Digital Visual Effects and Digital Cinema
“In both content and approach,
Alternative Realities is revelatory in its exploration of the cinematic imagination and the ambiguities of realism and verisimilitude. It articulates cinema’s role in calling truths about our society to attention through the creation of realistic and fantastical worlds in screen stories that span documentary to science fiction.”— Jane Stadler, the University of Queensland
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction
1 Realism and the Imagination
2 Fantasy and Reality
3 Subjective Realities
4 Ruptured Realities
5 Documentary: Art of the Real?
Acknowledgements
Further Reading
Works Cited
Index
