Aesthetic spaces : the place of art in film / Brigitte Peucker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peucker, Brigitte, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Aesthetics.

Motion pictures.

Painting and motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 210 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Aesthetic Spaces

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Films provide valuable spaces for aesthetic experimentation and analysis, for cinema's openness to other media has always allowed it to expand its own.In Aesthetic Spaces , Brigitte Peucker shows that when painterly or theatrical conventions are appropriated by the medium of film, the dissonant effects produced open it up to intermedial.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Kiarostami's Shirin and the Continuing Life of Cinema

Chapter 1. Space: Pictureness and Anti- perspectivalism in Modernist Film

Chapter 2. Spectator: The Spectator and the Text. The Space of Art in Greenaway

Chapter 3. Frame: Unframing the Image. Theatricality and the Art World of Bitter Tears

Chapter 4. Color: Effacement. Color, Modernism, and the Female Body

Chapter 5. Props: Object and Thing in Lang's German Films

Chapter 6. Décor: Collection and Display in Fassbinder's Lola

Chapter 7. Actor: Dissonance. Bodies between Registers

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includex index.

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OCLC:

1080273293