Douglas Sirk, aesthetic modernism and the culture of modernity /

The first truly interdisciplinary analysis to link Douglas Sirk's striking visual aesthetic to key movements in twentieth century art and architecture, this book reveals how the exaggerated artifice of Sirḱ⁰₉s formal style emerged from his detailed understanding of the artistic debates that ra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Evans, Victoria L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
Temas:
Sirk, Douglas, > 1897-1987 > Criticism and interpretation.
Sirk, Douglas, > 1897-1987
All that heaven allows (Motion picture)
Schlussakkord (Motion picture)
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Direction & Production.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Sirk and the visual arts
  • Thinking with the heart: Sirk and pictorial reception
  • Concerning the spiritual in art: Magnificent obsession and the influence of modernist painting
  • Part II. The shock of the new: traces of modernity
  • The invasion of machines and machine culture
  • Imitation of life and the depiction of suburban space
  • Part III. Two architectural case studies
  • Final chord and "Die neue Welt': the mise-en-scène of Aufbruch
  • Back to the future: modernist architecture and All that heaven allows.

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