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"Beyond Realism: Naturalist Film in Theory and Practice is a treatise on naturalist themes and the moving image, a platform of continuous intertextual references. With this book, Singer takes us on a fascinating (inter)national journey of theories, genres and themes dedicated to the naturalist film, while also presenting a renewed vision of ourselves and our bodies as spectacles. --Jos� Duarte, Film Studies Professor at the School of Arts and Humanities, ULisboa. ""Robert Singer's Beyond Realism: Naturalist Film in Theory and Practice is a comprehensive guide to naturalistic film; Singer has been the leading global expert on this topic for many years. His book is a life's work. He is able to move from the dark corners and sharp bright angles of early film to similar naturalist concerns in cinema today: social struggle, poverty, homelessness, violence, injustice, the naturalistic body, psychological conflicts, and many other features. It's an erudite but engaging read and a must for any naturalist or film student."" --Jeanne Campbell Reesman, Professor Emerita, University of Texas at San Antonio Robert Singer's Beyond Realism: Naturalist Film in Theory and Practice is a breathtakingly comprehensive and insightful investigation of naturalist themes in film. From Lumi�re actualit�s to the latest examples of international cinema, each chapter focuses on a separate facet of ""naturalism's grinding tradition"" and its themes of violence, degradation, disease, and the tension between the human spirit and naturalism's relentless assault on the body. --Professor Donna M. Campbell, author of Bitter Tastes: Literary Naturalism and Early Cinema in American Women's Writing"

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"Robert Singer, Professor of Liberal Studies, CUNY Graduate Center [ret]. He received a Ph.D. from New York University in Comparative Literature. His areas of expertise include literary and film interrelations, interdisciplinary research in film history and aesthetics, and comparative studies. He is the ReFocus: American and International Film series co-editor for Edinburgh University Press. He has written and directed several independent short films and co-produced the animated film, Ulalume (2022). Among his more recent publications are Consuming Images: Film Art and the Television Commercial (EUP, 2020), co-authored with Gary Rhodes, and ""A View from the Boardwalk: The W.P.A. New York City Guide and Coney Island Hypertext,"" in Rewriting America: New Essays on the Federal Writers' Project, ed. Sara Rutkowski, (2022)."

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