Art in the cinematic imagination / Susan Felleman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Felleman, Susan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and motion pictures.

Art in motion pictures.

Artists in motion pictures.

Women in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bringing an art historical perspective to the realm of American and European film, Art in the Cinematic Imagination examines the ways in which films have used works of art and artists themselves as cinematic and narrative motifs. From the use of portraits in Vertigo to the cinematic depiction of women artists in Artemisia and Camille Claudel, Susan Felleman incorporates feminist and psychoanalytic criticism to reveal individual and collective perspectives on sex, gender, identity, commerce, and class. Probing more than twenty films from the postwar era through contemporary times, Art in the Cinematic Imagination considers a range of structurally significant art objects, artist characters, and art-world settings to explore how the medium of film can amplify, reinvent, or recontextualize the other visual arts. Fluently speaking across disciplines, Felleman's study brings a broad array of methodologies to bear on questions such as the evolution of the "Hollywood Love Goddess" and the pairing of the feminine with death on screen. A persuasive approach to an engaging body of films, Art in the Cinematic Imagination illuminates a compelling and significant facet of the cinematic experience.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Baring the Device

CHAPTER 1 The Moving Picture Gallery

CHAPTER 2 A Form of Necrophilia (The Moving Picture Gallery Revisited)

CHAPTER 3 The Birth, Death, and Apotheosis of a Hollywood Love Goddess

CHAPTER 4 Survivors of the Shipwreck of Modernity

CHAPTER 5 Out of Her Element

CHAPTER 6 Playing with Fire

CHAPTER 7 Dirty Pictures, Mud Lust, and Abject Desire: Myths of Origin and the Cinematic Object

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-187) and index.

ISBN:

0-292-79665-X

OCLC:

568502455