Description
The Reality Effect is a book about how film has changed the way we view reality. It argues that the desire to make visible every aspect of our lives is an impulse derived from cinema. This has made life both more graphic and less "real." Black uses a series of comparative analyses to illustrate this effect.
It used to be only movies were on film; now the whole world is. The most intimate and most banal moments of our lives are constantly recorded for public consumption. In
The Reality Effect, Joel Black argues that the desire to make visible every aspect of our lives is an impulse derived from cinema- one that has made life both more graphic and less "real." He approaches film as a documentary medium that has obscured-if not obliterated- the line between reality and fiction. To illustrate this effect, Black traces the uncanny interplay between movies and real-life events through a series of comparative analyses-from
Lolita and the murder of JonBen©t Ramsey to
Wag the Dog and the Clinton scandal to
Crash and Princess Diana's violent death.
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