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Crossmappings : on visual culture /
"The influential cultural critic, Elisabeth Bronfen, sets out in this book a conversation between literature, cinema and visual culture. The crossmappings facilitated in and between these essays address the cultural survival of image formulas involving portraiture and the uncanny relation betwe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
I.B. Tauris,
2018.
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| Colección: | New encounters (London, England)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Crossmappings
- visual readings as a critical intervention in the cultural imaginary
- Part I. Travelling image formulas
- 1. Facing defacement: Degas' portraits of women
- 2. Naked touch: disfiguration, recognition and the female nude
- 3. Leaving an imprint: Francesca Woodman's photographic tableaux vivants
- 4. Pop cinema: Hollywood's critical engagement with America's culture of consumption
- 5. Hitler goes pop: totalitarianism, avant-garde aesthetics and Hollywood entertainment
- 6. Simulations of the real: Paul McCarthy's performance disasters
- 7. Wagner's Isolde in Hollywood
- 8. Shakespeare's wire
- 9. Queen of chess: on serial reading
- Part II. Gendering the uncanny, imagining death
- 10. The horror of the familiar: Freud's thoughts on femininity and the uncanny
- 11. Gendering curiosity: the double games of Siri Hustvedt, Paul Auster and Sophie Calle
- 12. The other self of the imagination: Cindy Sherman's hysterical performance
- 13. Eva Hesse's spectral bride and her uncanny double
- 14. Wounds of wonder: Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin, Nabuyoshi Araki
- 15. The fragility of the quotidian: Eija-Liisa Ahtila's work with death
- 16. Picasso's war women
- 17. Contending with the father: Louise Bourgeois and her aesthetics of reparation.