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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777574603321

Autore

Felleman Susan

Titolo

Art in the cinematic imagination [[electronic resource] /] / Susan Felleman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2006

ISBN

0-292-79665-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/657

Soggetti

Art and motion pictures

Art in motion pictures

Artists in motion pictures

Women in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-187) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Baring the Device -- CHAPTER 1 The Moving Picture Gallery -- CHAPTER 2 A Form of Necrophilia (The Moving Picture Gallery Revisited) -- CHAPTER 3 The Birth, Death, and Apotheosis of a Hollywood Love Goddess -- CHAPTER 4 Survivors of the Shipwreck of Modernity -- CHAPTER 5 Out of Her Element -- CHAPTER 6 Playing with Fire -- CHAPTER 7 Dirty Pictures, Mud Lust, and Abject Desire: Myths of Origin and the Cinematic Object -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Bringing an art historical perspective to the realm of American and European film, Art in the Cinematic Imagination examines the ways in which films have used works of art and artists themselves as cinematic and narrative motifs. From the use of portraits in Vertigo to the cinematic depiction of women artists in Artemisia and Camille Claudel, Susan Felleman incorporates feminist and psychoanalytic criticism to reveal individual and collective perspectives on sex, gender, identity, commerce, and class. Probing more than twenty films from the postwar era through contemporary times, Art in the Cinematic Imagination considers a range of structurally significant art objects, artist characters, and art-world settings to explore how the medium of film can amplify, reinvent, or recontextualize the other visual arts. Fluently



speaking across disciplines, Felleman's study brings a broad array of methodologies to bear on questions such as the evolution of the "Hollywood Love Goddess" and the pairing of the feminine with death on screen. A persuasive approach to an engaging body of films, Art in the Cinematic Imagination illuminates a compelling and significant facet of the cinematic experience.