Description |
1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Edinburgh studies in film and intermediality |
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Edinburgh studies in film and intermediality.
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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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Print version record |
Subject |
Sculpture in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- History -- 20th century
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Statues -- History
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PERFORMING ARTS / Reference
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PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production
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Motion pictures
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Sculpture in motion pictures
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Statues
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Felleman, Susan, author.
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Adriaensens, Vito, author.
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Colpaert, Lisa, author.
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LC no. |
2017299680 |
ISBN |
9781474410908 |
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1474410901 |
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9781474410915 |
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147441091X |
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1474410898 |
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9781474410892 |
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