Realism and the Cinema, A Reader edited by Christopher Williams, BFI in association with Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980, could be a useful text. Freda Freiberg, Melbourne Angelica Fenner wrote: > Dear list members, > > I am preparing a syllabus for a film course titled "Cinema and Realism", in > which I cover aspects of French poetic realism, U.S. film noir, and Italian > neo-realism. Early in the course I need to convey to students the > fundamental distinctions inhering between such concepts as "realism", > "reality" and "the Real." I'm wondering if anyone is familiar with an > essay or book that addresses these distinction in a cogent manner - > something that I could excerpt in a course reader without students having to > read an entire textbook? I'd be grateful for any citations that come to > mind. > > Thanking you in advance! Angelica Fenner > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > Angelica Fenner, Ph.D. > Department of French and Italian > 260 Folwell Hall > University of Minnesota > Minneapolis, MN 55455 > > ---- > Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite > http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html