Douglas Sirk, Aesthetic Modernism and the Culture of Modernity

ISBN-13: 9781474452021 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 208 str.

Victoria L. Evans

Spis treści

Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Introduction

PART ONE-Sirk and the Visual Arts

Thinking with the Heart: Sirk and Pictorial Reception
I. From the Haptic and Optic to the Affective and Brechtian
II. Going Beyond Melodrama’s Visual Metaphors

Concerning the Spiritual in Art: Magnificent Obsession and the Influence of Modernist Painting
I. Some Popular Mid-Century American Responses to Modernist Art
II. Cinema and Painting: Composing other Models

PART TWO-The Shock of the New: Traces of Modernity

The Invasion of Machines and Machine Culture
I. Softening the Armoured Heart: Douglas Sirk's The Tarnished Angels
II. Two Conflicting Views of Modern Technology

Imitation of Life and the Depiction of Suburban Space
I. Some Limitations of the Typical American Suburb
II. Stahl Versus Sirk and the Emergence of the Colour Line

PART THREE-Two Architectural Case Studies

Final Chord and "Die Neue Welt": The Mise-en-Scène of Aufbruch
I. Visions of Modernity: Interpreting the New York Skyline
II. The Weight of History: Germany's Imperial Monuments
III. Determining Final Chord’s "New World": The Textual Evidence
IV. Fashion or Revolution: Towards a Non-Bourgeois Interior

Back to the Future: Architecture and All that Heaven Allows
I. Modernism Here and There, Now and Then: Deciphering the Old Mill
II. The Mill as Architectural Art and the Selling of All That Heaven Allows
III. Stoningham as Mausoleum: a Repository of Dead Conventions
IV. The Eye of Power: Who is Looking at Whom in the Suburbs
V. Et in Arcadia Ego: The Denouement of All That Heaven Allows

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