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Screening Statues : Sculpture and Cinema / Susan Felleman, Lisa Colpaert, Steven Jacobs, Vito Adriaensens.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality : ESFIPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) : 225 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474410892
  • 9781474410908
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791
LOC classification:
  • PN1995 .J275 2017
  • PN1995 .J275 2017
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Marble Camera -- Part I -- CHAPTER 1. The Sculptor’s Dream: Living Statues in Early Cinema -- CHAPTER 2. The Mystery ... The Blood ... The Age of Gold: Sculpture in Surrealist and Surreal Cinema -- CHAPTER 3. Carving Cameras on Thorvaldsen and Rodin: Mid-Twentieth-Century Documentaries on Sculpture -- CHAPTER 4. Anatomy of an Ovidian Cinema: Mysteries of the Wax Museum -- CHAPTER 5. The Night of the Human Body: Statues and Fantasy in Postwar American Cinema -- CHAPTER 6. From Pompeii to Marienbad: Classical Sculptures in Postwar European Modernist Cinema -- CHAPTER 7. Of Swords, Sandals, and Statues: The Myth of the Living Statue -- CHAPTER 8. Coda: Returning the Favor (A Short History of Film Becoming Sculpture) -- Part II -- Sculpture Gallery: 150 Statues from European and American Cinema -- Bibliography -- About the Authors -- Index
Summary: Explores the interaction between sculpture and cinemaScreening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema 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 Méliès, 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.Key FeaturesA unique book-length study of sculpture and cinemaExplores the cinematic form and function of sculpture in 8 case studies that represent diverse genres and traditions throughout film historyFeatures an extensive reference gallery of 150 films with short entries on eachInnovatively brings together two media, their artistic traditions, and their respective theoretical paradigms
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Marble Camera -- Part I -- CHAPTER 1. The Sculptor’s Dream: Living Statues in Early Cinema -- CHAPTER 2. The Mystery ... The Blood ... The Age of Gold: Sculpture in Surrealist and Surreal Cinema -- CHAPTER 3. Carving Cameras on Thorvaldsen and Rodin: Mid-Twentieth-Century Documentaries on Sculpture -- CHAPTER 4. Anatomy of an Ovidian Cinema: Mysteries of the Wax Museum -- CHAPTER 5. The Night of the Human Body: Statues and Fantasy in Postwar American Cinema -- CHAPTER 6. From Pompeii to Marienbad: Classical Sculptures in Postwar European Modernist Cinema -- CHAPTER 7. Of Swords, Sandals, and Statues: The Myth of the Living Statue -- CHAPTER 8. Coda: Returning the Favor (A Short History of Film Becoming Sculpture) -- Part II -- Sculpture Gallery: 150 Statues from European and American Cinema -- Bibliography -- About the Authors -- Index

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Explores the interaction between sculpture and cinemaScreening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema 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 Méliès, 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.Key FeaturesA unique book-length study of sculpture and cinemaExplores the cinematic form and function of sculpture in 8 case studies that represent diverse genres and traditions throughout film historyFeatures an extensive reference gallery of 150 films with short entries on eachInnovatively brings together two media, their artistic traditions, and their respective theoretical paradigms

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