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Author Jacobs, Steven (Film producer), author.

Title Screening statues : sculpture and cinema / Steven Jacobs, Susan Felleman, Vito Adriaensens, and Lisa Colpaert
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : illustrations
Series Edinburgh studies in film and intermediality
Edinburgh studies in film and intermediality.
Contents Introduction: The Marble Camera / Steven Jacobs -- 1. The Sculptor's Dream: Living Statues in Early Cinema / Steven Jacobs -- 2. The Mystery, The Blood, The Age of Gold: Sculpture in Surrealist and Surreal Cinema / Susan Felleman -- 3. Carving Cameras on Thorvaldsen and Rodin: Mid-Twentieth-Century Documentaries on Sculpture / Steven Jacobs -- 4. Anatomy of an Ovidian Cinema: Mysteries of the Wax Museum / Vito Adriaensens -- 5. The Night of the Human Body: Statues and Fantasy in Postwar American Cinema / Susan Felleman -- 6. From Pompeii to Marienbad: Classical Sculptures in Postwar European Modernist Cinema / Lisa Colpaert -- 7. Of Swords, Sandals, and Statues: The Myth of the Living Statue / Vito Adriaensens -- 8. Coda: Returning the Favor (A Short History of Film Becoming Sculpture) / Susan Felleman -- Sculpture Gallery: 150 Statues from European and American Cinema / Lisa Colpaert
Summary This is the first book to focus on the relationship between sculpture and the silver screen. It covers a broad range of magical, mystical and phenomenological interactions between the two media, from early film's eroticized tableaux vivants to enigmatic sculptures in modernist cinema. Sculptures are literally brought to life on the silver screen, while living people are turned into, or trapped inside, statuary. The 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. Considering the work of directors like Georges Melies, Jean Cocteau and Alain Resnais, as well as films like House of Wax, Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans, this is an innovative exploration of two different media, their artistic traditions and their respective theoretical paradigms
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-262) and index
Notes Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL
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Subject Sculpture in motion pictures.
Motion pictures -- History -- 20th century
Statues -- History
PERFORMING ARTS / Reference
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production
Motion pictures
Sculpture in motion pictures
Statues
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Felleman, Susan, author.
Adriaensens, Vito, author.
Colpaert, Lisa, author.
LC no. 2017299680
ISBN 9781474410908
1474410901
9781474410915
147441091X
1474410898
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