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Drawn from Life : Issues and Themes in Animated Documentary Cinema

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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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  • ISBN-13: 9780748694112
  • ISBN-10: 0748694110
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • Publish Date: November 2018
  • Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
  • Page Count: 256

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