Governing Visions of the Real

Governing Visions of the RealThis book traces the emergence, development and techniques of Griersonian documentary in New Zealand throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Lars Weckbecker focuses on the productions of the National Film Unit in the 1940s and '50s, following the shifting practices and governmentality of documentary's "visions of the real."

these varied contributions show how films shot in Reykjavík have been shaped both by Iceland’s remoteness from the rest of the world and by Icelandic filmmakers’ sense that the city remains forever on the brink of desolate and harsh wilderness

and Freedman discusses how television’s increasingly congenial creative environment has allowed it to turn out productions whose ability to engage with these larger social questions rivals that of films from the height of cinema’s Golden Age

modernist poet Claude McKay troubles the traditional symbol of springtime to accommodate the hardships of an increasingly industrialized world

The approach considers natural language as an information state

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