World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism

Chapter 2. The Immaterial Difference: Werner Herzog Revisited The Excessive BodyLiteral DifferencePhysical DifferenceRepresentational Difference

Part II - The Reality of the Medium

Chapter 3. Conceptual Realism in Land in Trance and I Am CubaAllegorical Real Reality as Process: Trance in Land in TranceTrance, Sexuality and the Christian Myth in I Am CubaMimesis of the PrincipleConcluding Remarks

Chapter 4. The Work of Art in Progress: An Analysis of Delicate Crime

Part III - The Ethics of Desire

Chapter 5. The Realm of the Senses, the Ethical Imperative and the Politics of PleasureOriginality, Beauty and the Porn GenreThe Eroticized NationSex in Red and White: Double SuicideAnti-Realism and Artistic RealThe Participative Voyeur and the Eroticized Apparatus

Part IV - The Production of Reality

Chapter 6. Hara and Kobayashi's 'Private Documentaries'Historical TimePhenomenological TimeActive Subjects

Chapter 7. The Self-Performing Auteur: Ethics in Joao Cesar MonteiroEthics of the Impossible RealGod's AutobiographyThe History Man

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