Real objects in unreal situations : modern art in fiction films / Susan Felleman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Felleman, Susan

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Setting and scenery.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xi, 203 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Intellect, 2014.

Summary:

Real Objects in Unreal Situations is a lucid account of a much neglected subject in art and cinema studies: the material significance of the art object incorporated into the fiction film. By examining the historical, political, and personal realities that situate the art works, Susan Felleman offers an incisive account of how they operate not as objects but as powerful players within the films, thereby exceeding the narrative function of mere props, copies, pastiches, or reproductions. The book consists of a series of interconnected case studies of movies, including Pride & Prejudice, The Trouble with Harry, and The Player, ultimately showing that when real art works enter into fiction films, they embody themes and discourses in a way that other objects often cannot. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Doubly Immortal: The Song of Songs (1933) 17

Chapter 2 Suspect Modernism: Venus vor Gericht (1941) and Muerte de un ciclista (1955) 55

Chapter 3 The World Gone Wiggy: The Trouble with Harry (1955) 89

Chapter 4 Art for the Apocalypse: The Damned (1961) 107

Chapter 5 Object Choices: An Unmarried Woman (1978) and The Player (1992) 129

Chapter 6 Subjects, Objects, and Erotic Upheaval at Pemberley: Pride & Prejudice (2005) 159.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781783202508

1783202505

OCLC:

875151757