Screening statues : sculpture and cinema /

This is the first book to focus on the relationship between sculpture and the silver screen. It covers a broad range of magical, mystical and phenomenological interactions between the two media, from early film's eroticized tableaux vivants to enigmatic sculptures in modernist cinema. Sculpture...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Jacobs, Steven (Film producer) (Author), Felleman, Susan (Author), Adriaensens, Vito (Author), Colpaert, Lisa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
Series:Edinburgh studies in film and intermediality.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Sculpture in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > History > 20th century.
Statues > History.
Sculpture au cinéma.
Cinéma > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Statues > Histoire.
PERFORMING ARTS / Reference
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production
Motion pictures
Sculpture in motion pictures
Statues
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Marble Camera / Steven Jacobs
  • 1. The Sculptor's Dream: Living Statues in Early Cinema / Steven Jacobs
  • 2. The Mystery, The Blood, The Age of Gold: Sculpture in Surrealist and Surreal Cinema / Susan Felleman
  • 3. Carving Cameras on Thorvaldsen and Rodin: Mid-Twentieth-Century Documentaries on Sculpture / Steven Jacobs
  • 4. Anatomy of an Ovidian Cinema: Mysteries of the Wax Museum / Vito Adriaensens
  • 5. The Night of the Human Body: Statues and Fantasy in Postwar American Cinema / Susan Felleman
  • 6. From Pompeii to Marienbad: Classical Sculptures in Postwar European Modernist Cinema / Lisa Colpaert
  • 7. Of Swords, Sandals, and Statues: The Myth of the Living Statue / Vito Adriaensens
  • 8. Coda: Returning the Favor (A Short History of Film Becoming Sculpture) / Susan Felleman
  • Sculpture Gallery: 150 Statues from European and American Cinema / Lisa Colpaert.

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