Drawn from Life: Issues and Themes in Animated Documentary Cinema (Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748694110 ISBN 13: 9780748694112

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Documentary cinema has always drawn from real life, but an increasing number of contemporary filmmakers are going further still, drawing onscreen images of reality through a range of animated filmmaking techniques. Drawn from Life is the first book to explore the field of animated documentaries from a diverse range of scholarly and practice-based perspectives, exploring and proposing answers to a range of questions that preoccupy twenty-first-century film artists and audiences alike: Why use animation to document? How do such images reflect and influence our understanding and experience of reality, whether public or private, psychological or political? From early cinema to present-day scientific research, military uses, digital art and gaming, this book casts new light on the capacity of the moving image to act as a record of the world around us, challenging the orthodox definitions of documentary cinema.

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About the Authors

Jonathan Murray is Senior Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of The New Scottish Cinema (2015) and Discomfort and Joy (2011), a Contributing Writer for Cineaste magazine and co-Principal Editor of Journal of British Cinema and Television.

Nea Ehrlich is Lecturer in The Department of the Arts at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.

From the Back Cover

Drawn from Life: Issues and Themes in Animated Documentary Cinema Edited by Jonathan Murray and Nea Ehrlich Documentary cinema has always drawn from real life, but an increasing number of contemporary filmmakers go yet further still, drawing onscreen images of reality through a range of animated filmmaking techniques. Drawn from Life is the first anthology publication to explore the field of animated documentaries from a diverse range of scholarly and practice-based perspectives, exploring and proposing answers to a range of questions that preoccupy twenty-first-century film artists and audiences alike: Why use animation to document? How do such images reflect and influence our understanding and experience of reality, whether public or private, psychological or political? From early cinema to present-day scientific research, military uses, digital art and gaming, this book casts new light on the capacity of the moving image to act as a record of the world around us, challenging the orthodox definitions of documentary cinema. Jonathan Murray is Senior Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh Nea Ehrlich is Lecturer in The Department of the Arts at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748694110
• ISBN 13: 9780748694112
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Murray Jonathan, Ehrlich Nea