Documentary's Awkward Turn: Cringe Comedy and Media Spectatorship - Brossura

Libro 7 di 95: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

Middleton, Jason

 
9781138645554: Documentary's Awkward Turn: Cringe Comedy and Media Spectatorship
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ISBN 10: 1138645559 ISBN 13: 9781138645554
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2015

Sinossi

Despite the prominence of "awkwardness" as cultural buzzword and descriptor of a sub-genre of contemporary film and television comedy, it has yet to be adequately theorized in academic film and media studies. Documentary’s Awkward Turn contributes a new critical paradigm to the field by presenting an analysis of awkward moments in documentary film and other reality-based media formats. It examines difficult and disrupted encounters between social actors on the screen, between filmmaker and subject, and between film and spectator. These encounters are, of course, often inter-connected. Awkward moments occur when an established mode of representation or reception is unexpectedly challenged, stalled, or altered: when an interviewee suddenly confronts the interviewer, when a subject who had been comfortable on camera begins to feel trapped in the frame, when a film perceived as a documentary turns out to be a parodic mockumentary. This book makes visible the ways in which awkwardness connects and subtends a range of transformative textual strategies, political and ethical problematics, and modalities of spectatorship in documentary film and media from the 1970s to the present.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Jason Middleton is Assistant Professor in the English Department and the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, and Director of the Program in Film and Media Studies, at the University of Rochester, USA. He is co-editor of the book Medium Cool: Music Videos from Soundies to Cellphones (2007).

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2015
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1138645559
ISBN 13 
9781138645554
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Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
200
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9780415721073: Documentary's Awkward Turn: Cringe Comedy and Media Spectatorship

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0415721075 ISBN 13:  9780415721073
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2013
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