Douglas Sirk, aesthetic modernism and the culture of modernity / Victoria L. Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Victoria L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

All that heaven allows (Motion picture).

Schlussakkord (Motion picture).

Sirk, Douglas, 1897-1987--Criticism and interpretation.

Sirk, Douglas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

Summary:

With detailed case studies of "Final Chord" and "All That Heaven Allows", Victoria Evans demonstrates how Sirk attempted to dissolve the boundaries of cinema by assimilating elements of avant-garde art, architecture and design into the colour, composition and setting of many of his most well-known films.

Contents:

Part I. Sirk and the visual arts

Thinking with the heart: Sirk and pictorial reception

Concerning the spiritual in art: Magnificent obsession and the influence of modernist painting

Part II. The shock of the new: traces of modernity

The invasion of machines and machine culture

Imitation of life and the depiction of suburban space

Part III. Two architectural case studies

Final chord and "Die neue Welt': the mise-en-scène of Aufbruch

Back to the future: modernist architecture and All that heaven alows.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018).

ISBN:

1-4744-0941-5

1-4744-3473-8

1-4744-0940-7

OCLC:

1306541051