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<div align="center"><font face="Garamond">UNSW School of Media
Film and Theatre</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Garamond">5 p.m. Wednesday 15
March</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Garamond">Webster Building
327</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Garamond" size="+3" color="#007700">An
other Bazin: realism and authenticity</font></div>
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color="#007700">Richard Rushton</font></div>
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<div><font face="Garamond">The received wisdom about Andre Bazin is
that he advocates a theory of realism in the cinema which has its
basis in a correspondence between films and perceptual reality.
Alongside this common view, I propose another Bazin, one who theorises
realism as a matter of authenticity or as a 'way of life'. From this
perspective I argue that Bazin's notion of realism has much in common
with what the art historian Michael Fried has called 'absorption' in
the history of art. I thus argue that Bazinian realism has less to do
with perceptual realism than with an antitheatricality that leads to
authenticity.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Garamond">Richard Rushton was awarded his PhD by the
University of Sydney in 2000. He is now a Lecturer at the
Institute for Cultural Research at Lancaster University, United
Kingdom. He has published articles on the theories of Christian Metz,
Gilles Deleuze and other aspects of film theory. He is currently
writing a book on theories of realism and reality in the
cinema.</font></div>
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<div>Dr James Donald<br>
Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences<br>
Professor of Film Studies, School of Media, Film and Theatre<br>
University of New South Wales<br>
Sydney<br>
NSW 2052<br>
Australia<br>
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