Beyond Slow: The Problem of Realism in Contemporary Minimalist Cinema
This thesis examines how a series of contemporary narrative filmmakers use minimalism paradoxically to enhance, detract from and interrogate the realism of their films, in order to critique current cinematic practices and investigate new approaches to the centuries-old dilemma of how reality can be...
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Curtin University
2014
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| author | McGrath, Sean Kenta |
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| description | This thesis examines how a series of contemporary narrative filmmakers use minimalism paradoxically to enhance, detract from and interrogate the realism of their films, in order to critique current cinematic practices and investigate new approaches to the centuries-old dilemma of how reality can be represented on screen. This thesis is a creative doctoral project, comprising of an exegesis and a feature-length documentary/fiction film, This Used To Be Here. |
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| institution | Curtin University Malaysia |
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| language | English |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-10692017-02-20T06:40:02Z Beyond Slow: The Problem of Realism in Contemporary Minimalist Cinema McGrath, Sean Kenta This thesis examines how a series of contemporary narrative filmmakers use minimalism paradoxically to enhance, detract from and interrogate the realism of their films, in order to critique current cinematic practices and investigate new approaches to the centuries-old dilemma of how reality can be represented on screen. This thesis is a creative doctoral project, comprising of an exegesis and a feature-length documentary/fiction film, This Used To Be Here. 2014 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1069 en Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | McGrath, Sean Kenta Beyond Slow: The Problem of Realism in Contemporary Minimalist Cinema |
| title | Beyond Slow: The Problem of Realism in Contemporary Minimalist Cinema |
| title_full | Beyond Slow: The Problem of Realism in Contemporary Minimalist Cinema |
| title_fullStr | Beyond Slow: The Problem of Realism in Contemporary Minimalist Cinema |
| title_full_unstemmed | Beyond Slow: The Problem of Realism in Contemporary Minimalist Cinema |
| title_short | Beyond Slow: The Problem of Realism in Contemporary Minimalist Cinema |
| title_sort | beyond slow: the problem of realism in contemporary minimalist cinema |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1069 |