Art and the historical film : between realism and the sublime / Gillian McIver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McIver, Gillian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pomerance, Murray, b. 1946-.

Pomerance, Murray.

Motion pictures--Realism.

Motion pictures.

Film--Historical.

Film.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

From Eugene Delacroix's interpretation of the 1830 French revolution to Uli Edel's version of the Baader-Meinhof Gang, artistic representations of historical subjects are appealing and pervasive. Movies often adapt imagery from art history, including paintings of historical events. Films and art shape the past for us and continue to affect our interpretation of history. While historical films are often argued over for their adherence to "the facts," their real problem is realism: how can the past be convincingly depicted? Realism in the historical film genre is often nourished and given credibility by its use of painterly references. This book examines how art-historical images affect historical films by going beyond period detail and surface design to look at how profound ideas about history are communicated through pictures. Art and the Historical Film: Between Realism and the Sublime is based on case studies that explore the links between art and cinema, including American independent Western Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010), British heritage film Belle (Amma Asante, 2013), and Dutch national epic Admiral (Roel Reiné, 2014). The chapters create immersive worlds that communicate distinct ideas about the past through cinematography, production design, and direction, as the films adapt, reference, and transpose paintings by artists such as Rubens, Albert Bierstadt, and Jacques-Louis David. .

Contents:

Introduction: Visual Storytelling and Filming the Historical Past

1. Realism and the Sublime in Cinema and Painting

2. Meek's Cutoff: Realism and the Sublime in the Historical Film

3. Girl with a Pearl Earring: Realism, Representation, and the Dutch Golden Age

4. The Baader-Meinhof Complex: "Journalism" as "Art"

5. Roel Reiné's Admiral: Grand Narratives and the Spectacle

6. Belle: Slavery, Race, and the Portrait

7. al-Mumya' (The Night of Counting the Years): Time and History.

ISBN:

9781501384721

1501384724

9781501384752

1501384759

9781501384745

1501384740

OCLC:

1336594081

Publisher Number:

10.5040/9781501384721 doi.