Realism and the Audiovisual Media

This collection examines two recent phenomena: the return of realist tendencies and practices in world cinema and television, and the ’rehabilitation’ of realism in film and media theory. The contributors investigate these two phenomena in detail, querying their origins, relations, divergences and intersections from a variety of perspectives.

LOUIS BAYMAN is a PhD candidate at King’s College London, UK MARY ANN DOANE is George Hazard Crooker Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, USA THOMAS ELSAESSER is Professor of Film and Visual Culture at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands ARMIDA DE LA GARZA is Associate Professor in International Communication at the University of Nottingham, Ningbo Campus, China LEIGHTON GRIST is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Film Studies at the University of Winchester, UK BETH JOHNSON is a Lecturer in Media and Film Studies at Liverpool Hope University, UK JACOB LEIGH teaches at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK DIANE MYERS leads the BA Broadcasting programme within the Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds, UK DAVINA QUINLIVAN is a PhD candidate in the Film Studies department at King’s College London, UK MING-YEH T. RAWNSLEY lectures on Chinese-language films at the University of Leeds, UK ANNA ROGERS is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh, UK JOAO MOREIRA SALLES is a documentary filmmaker MARC SILBERMAN is Professor of German and Director of the Centre for German and European Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA VLAD STRUKOV is Lecturer in Russian and World Cinemas at the University of Leeds, UK ISMAIL XAVIER is Professor of Film at the University of São Paulo, Brazil