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dc.contributor.authorThanouli, Eleftheria
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-14T14:52:50Z
dc.date.available2022-10-14T14:52:50Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifierONIX_20221014_9781441198716_64
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58733
dc.description.abstractThis book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Wag the Dog is a film that became a media event and a cultural icon because it inadvertently short-circuited the distance that is supposed to separate reality and fiction. The film's narration challenges the established boundaries between the fiction and nonfiction tradition, as Barry Levinson, the director, embeds his interest in documentary filmmaking and complicates the issue of narrative agency in the way he frames the story. The examination of the historical and social context in which it was produced, exhibited and received worldwide enables the author to illuminate a series of changes in the way a fiction film reflects and interacts with reality, urging us to reconsider some of our central and long-standing concepts or even paradigms in film theory. Eleftheria Thanouli provides new insights into a series of issues from both classical and contemporary film theory, like the conceptual and ontological stakes in the use of digital technology, the impact of mass media on public memory and the political role of cinema in a globalized and conglomerated world.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AP Film, TV & radio::APF Films, cinema::APFA Film theory & criticism
dc.subject.otherFilm history, theory and criticism
dc.titleWag the Dog: A Study on Film and Reality in the Digital Age
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.5040/9781628929171
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b
oapen.relation.isbn9781441198716
oapen.relation.isbn9781441122810
oapen.imprintBloomsbury Academic
oapen.pages176
oapen.place.publicationNew York


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