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Wag the Dog and the Media

Eleftheria Thanouli

Eleftheria Thanouli is Assistant Professor in Film Theory at the Film Department at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam in 2005. She is the author of Post-Classical Cinema: An International Poetics of Film Narration (2009). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Wag the Dog : A Study on Film and Reality in the Digital Age

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

Book chapter

...Introduction In this chapter, I will continue to investigate the relation of film and reality but no longer from a formal and modal point of view, as in the previous two chapters. Instead, I will switch my focus from the filmic text...

Introduction

Eleftheria Thanouli

Eleftheria Thanouli is Assistant Professor in Film Theory at the Film Department at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam in 2005. She is the author of Post-Classical Cinema: An International Poetics of Film Narration (2009). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Wag the Dog : A Study on Film and Reality in the Digital Age

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

Book chapter

...Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying (London: Penguin Classics, 2010), 22.Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates LifeWag the Dog is a good example to test Oscar Wilde’s claim. Directed by Barry Levinson and released in the theatres a few...

Wag the Dog and Narrative Analysis

Eleftheria Thanouli

Eleftheria Thanouli is Assistant Professor in Film Theory at the Film Department at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam in 2005. She is the author of Post-Classical Cinema: An International Poetics of Film Narration (2009). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Wag the Dog : A Study on Film and Reality in the Digital Age

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

Book chapter

...The story of Wag the Dog is dedicated to a widely debated topic, namely the problematic state of reality in a media saturated world. The proliferation of mass media and the repercussions of technological progress on the way people perceive...

Wag the Dog and the Digital

Eleftheria Thanouli

Eleftheria Thanouli is Assistant Professor in Film Theory at the Film Department at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam in 2005. She is the author of Post-Classical Cinema: An International Poetics of Film Narration (2009). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Wag the Dog : A Study on Film and Reality in the Digital Age

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

Book chapter

...One of the key moments in Wag the Dog is the shooting of the war footage that signals the beginning of the Albanian crisis. Motss and his team decide to leak a news video to the media in order to visually establish the outbreak of the war...

Wag the Dog and Politics in Hollywood

Eleftheria Thanouli

Eleftheria Thanouli is Assistant Professor in Film Theory at the Film Department at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam in 2005. She is the author of Post-Classical Cinema: An International Poetics of Film Narration (2009). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Wag the Dog : A Study on Film and Reality in the Digital Age

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

Book chapter

...Michael Coyne, Hollywood Goes to Washington: American Politics on Screen (London: Reaktion Books, 2008), 17.Over the past three generations, the American political movie has been a resilient, frequently neglected but quietly tenacious...

Frances McDormand

Projections 11 : New York Film-makers on Film-making

Faber and Faber Limited, 2002

Book chapter

...Actress Frances McDormand has appeared in Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Chattahoochee, Hidden Agenda, Darkman, Short Cuts, Beyond Rangoon, Primal Fear, Madeline and Wonder Boys, among others. She was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress...

Ted Hope and James Schamus

Projections 11 : New York Film-makers on Film-making

Faber and Faber Limited, 2002

Book chapter

...James Schamus and Ted Hope co-founded Good Machine, a New York-based independent production company, in 1991. They have been involved in the production of over forty films, including Happiness, Walking and Talking, The Myth of Fingerprints,...

Jim Jarmusch

Projections 11 : New York Film-makers on Film-making

Faber and Faber Limited, 2002

Book chapter

...Jim Jarmusch has written and directed Permanent Vacation, Stranger Than Paradise (winner of the Camera d'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival), Down By Law, Mystery Train, Night on Earth, Dead Man and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai. He...

Jonas Mekas

Projections 11 : New York Film-makers on Film-making

Faber and Faber Limited, 2002

Book chapter

...Jonas Mekas, director and co-founder of Anthology Film Archives, is a film-maker, poet, critic and long-time proponent of avant-garde film. He founded the influential journal Film Culture in 1955, and wrote the 'Movie Journal' column...

Buck Henry

Projections 11 : New York Film-makers on Film-making

Faber and Faber Limited, 2002

Book chapter

...Buck Henry wrote the screenplays for The Graduate (with Calder Willingham), Candy, Catch-22, The Owl and the Pussycat, What's Up, Doc?, and To Die For, among many others. He co-directed Heaven Can Wait with Warren Beatty, wrote and directed...