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Wag the Dog

By Eleftheria Thanouli

Wag the Dog Arts & Music

Wag the Dog

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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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
178
Release Date:
2013-08-01
Publication Date:
2013-09-26
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
144118936X
ISBN13:
9781441189363
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
417 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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