by Kevin MacDonald and Mark Cousins
Imagining Reality is not an academic tome. It is an honest collection of views of cinema’s forgotten form, a form hi-jacked by television and then too often treated like news footage. Nicholas Fraser editor of BBC 2’s "Fine Cut" documentary strand describes documentary filmmakers as "the mendicant friars of our times, visiting one forlorn hell-hole after another in a vain effort to correct the growing view that everything is no more than virtual."
In a sense, cinema having largely turned its back on documentary in favour of fiction has helped preserve the documentary form, keeping it relatively safe from searching examination, whereas film fiction is now venerated like literature.
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