Reality Transformed: Film and Meaning and Technique

Reality Transformed: Film and Meaning and Technique by Singer, Irving. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780262692489.

A new look at film that succeeds in combining the realist and formalist sides of an ongoing debate. In Reality Transformed Irving Singer offers a new approach to the philosophy of film. Returning to the classical debate between realists and formalists, he shows how the opposing positions may be harmonized and united. Singer concentrates on questions about appearance and reality, the visual and the literary, and the interplay between communication as a goal and alienation as a hazard in films of every sort. In three exemplary chapters, he provides suggestive readings of Woody Allens The Purple Rose of Cairo, Luchino Viscontis Death in Venice, and Jean Renoirs The Rules of the Game. Reality Transformed will interest the general reader as well as students in all fields related to film studies.