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Bodies of stone in the media, visual culture and the arts /
If mediatization has surprisingly revealed the secret life of inert matter and the 'face of things', the flipside of this has been the petrification of living organisms, an invasion of stone bodies in a state of suspended animation. Within a contemporary imaginary pervaded by new forms of...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , , , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2020.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Introduction
- 1. Theatre and Memory: The Body-as-Statue in Early Modern Culture
- 2. Translated Bodies: A 'Cartographic' Approach
- 3. Pantomime in Stone: Performance of the Pose and Animal Camouflage
- 4. Animated Statues and Petrified Bodies : A Journey Inside Fantasy Cinema
- 5. The Ephemeral Cathedral : Bodies of Stone and Configurations of Film
- Introduction
- 1. Bodies That Matter: Miniaturisation and the Origin(s) of 'Art'
- 2. Brancusi's 'Sculpture for the Blind'
- 3. Cinema, Phenomenology and Hyperrealism
- 4. Ephemeral Bodies: The 'Candles' of Urs Fischer
- 5. The Celluloid and the Death Mask : Bazin's and Eisenstein's Image Anthropology
- Introduction
- 1. Funeral Eulogy : Post-Mortem Figures and Redeemed Bodies, in Images
- 2. On Jack Torrance As a Fossil Form
- 3. Technical Images and the Transformation of Matter in Eighteenth-Century Tuscany
- 4. Glass, Mixed Media, Stone : The Bodily Stuffs of Suspended Animation
- 5. Bodies' Strange Stories : Les Revenants and The Leftovers
- Introduction
- 1. The Impassibly Fleshly, the Statue of the Impossible
- 2. Frozen into Allegory: Cleopatra's Cultural Survival
- 3. The Orphan Image
- 4. The Well-Tempered Memorial : Abstraction, Anthropomorphism, Embodiment
- 5. Monuments of the Heart : Living Tombs and Organic Memories in Contemporary Culture
- Index