Pretty : film and the decorative image / Rosalind Galt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Galt, Rosalind.

Series:

Film and culture.

Film and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Aesthetics.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2011.

New York : Columbia University Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Film culture often rejects visually rich images, valuing simplicity, austerity, or even ugliness as more provocative, political, and truly cinematic. Although cinema challenges traditional ideas of art, this opposition to the decorative continues a long-standing aesthetic antipathy to feminine cosmetics, Oriental effeminacy, and primitive ornament. Inheriting this patriarchal and colonial perspective along with the preference for fine over decorative art, filmmakers, critics, and theorists tend to denigrate cinema's colorful, picturesque, and richly patterned visions.Condemning this exclusion

Contents:

Introduction: the pretty as troublesome image

From aesthetics to film aesthetics: or, beauty and truth redux

Colors: Derek Jarman and queer aesthetics

Ornament and modernity: from decorative art to cultural criticism

Objects: oriental style and the arabesques of Moulin Rouge!

At the crossroads: iconoclasm and the anti-aesthetic in postwar film and theory

Forms: Soy Cuba and revolutionary beauty

Perverse prettiness: sexuality, gender, and aesthetic exclusion

Bodies: the sumptuous charms of Ulrike Ottinger

Postscript: toward a worldly image.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed Octuber 2, 2023)

ISBN:

9786613094025

9781283094023

1283094029

9780231526951

0231526954

OCLC:

818854312