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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobs, Steven (Film producer), author.

Felleman, Susan, author.

Adriaensens, Vito, author.

Colpaert, Lisa, author.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in film and intermediality.

Edinburgh studies in film and intermediality

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Statues--motion pictures--History.

Statues.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

Summary:

This 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.

Contents:

Intro

Screening Statues

Copyright

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Marble Camera

Part I

1 The Sculptor's Dream: Living Statues in Early Cinema

2 The Mystery . . . The Blood . . . The Age of Gold: Sculpture in Surrealist and Surreal Cinema

3 Carving Cameras on Thorvaldsen and Rodin: Mid-Twentieth-Century Documentaries on Sculpture

4 Anatomy of an Ovidian Cinema: Mysteries of the Wax Museum

5 The Night of the Human Body: Statues and Fantasy in Postwar American Cinema

6 From Pompeii to Marienbad: Classical Sculptures in Postwar European Modernist Cinema

7 Of Swords, Sandals, and Statues: The Myth of the Living Statue

8 Coda: Returning the Favor (A Short History of Film Becoming Sculpture)

Part II

Sculpture Gallery: 150 Statues from European and American Cinema

Bibliography

About the Authors

Index.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4744-3170-4

1-4744-3846-6

1-4744-1090-1

1-4744-1091-X

OCLC:

1063797549