Screening statues : sculpture and cinema / Steven Jacobs, Susan Felleman, Vito Adriaensens, and Lisa Colpaert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobs, Steven, author.

Felleman, Susan, author.

Adriaensens, Vito, author.

Colpaert, Lisa, author.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in film and intermediality

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

History.

Statues--Motion pictures--History.

Statues.

Physical Description:

xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press 2017.

Summary:

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. Sculptures are literally brought to life on the silver screen, while living people are turned into, or trapped inside, statuary. The book examines key sculptural motifs and cinematic sculpture in film history through a series of case studies and through an extensive reference gallery of 150 different films. Considering the work of directors like Georges Melies, Jean Cocteau and Alain Resnais, as well as films like House of Wax, Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans, this is an innovative exploration of two different media, their artistic traditions and their respective theoretical paradigms.

Contents:

Part I

1 The Sculptor's Dream: Living Statues in Early Cinema / Vito Adriaensens Adriaensens, Vito, Steven Jacobs Jacobs, Steven 29

2 The Mystery ... The Blood ... The Age of Gold: Sculpture in Surrealist and Surreal Cinema / Susan Felleman Felleman, Susan 46

3 Carving Cameras on Thorvaldsen and Rodin: Mid-Twentieth-Century Documentaries on Sculpture / Steven Jacobs Jacobs, Steven 65

4 Anatomy of an Ovidian Cinema: Mysteries of the Wax Museum / Vito Adriaensens Adriaensens, Vito 84

5 The Night of the Human Body: Statues and Fantasy in Postwar American Cinema / Susan Felleman Felleman, Susan 101

6 From Pompeii to Marienbad: Classical Sculptures in Postwar European Modernist Cinema / Steven Jacobs Jacobs, Steven, Lisa Colpaerl Colpaerl, Lisa 118

7 Of Swords, Sandals, and Statues: The Myth of the Living Statue / Vito Adriaensens Adriaensens, Vito 137

8 Coda: Returning the Favor (A Short History of Film Becoming Sculpture) / Susan Felleman Felleman, Susan 156

Part I

Sculpture Gallery: 150 Statues from European and American Cinema / Vito Adriaensens Adriaensens, Vito, Lisa Colpaert Colpaert, Lisa 171.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-262) and index.

ISBN:

9781474410892

1474410898

OCLC:

977206776