Screening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema

ISBN-13: 9781474410892 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 288 str.

Steven Jacobs; Susan Felleman; Vito Adriaensens

Opis

This 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.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Marble Camera, Steven Jacobs

PART I: ESSAYS

1. The Sculptor’s Dream: Living Statues in Early Cinema, Vito Adriaensens and 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. Mysteries of the Wax Museum: Anatomy of an Ovidian Cinema, Vito Adriaensens

5. The Night of the Human Body: Statues and Fantasy in Post-War American Cinema, Susan Felleman

6. From Pompei to Marienbad: Classical Sculpture in Post-War European Modernist Cinema, Steven Jacobs and Lisa Colpaert

7. Of Swords, Sandals, and Statues: The Myth of the Living Statue from Hephaistos to the Silver Screen, Vito Adriaensens

8. Coda: Returning the Favor (A Short History of Film Becoming Sculpture), Susan Felleman

PART II: SCULPTURE GALLERY

Vito Adriaensens and Lisa Colpaert　

Bibliography

About the Authors

Index