Art in the Cinematic Imagination

Susan Felleman

Published by University of Texas Press 2006

Art in the Cinematic Imagination

Susan Felleman

https://doi.org/10.7560/709423

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Bringing an art historical perspective to the realm of American and European film, Art in the Cinematic Imagination examines the ways in which films have used works of art and artists themselves as cinematic and narrative motifs. From the use of portraits in Vertigo to the cinematic depiction of women artists in Artemisia and Camille Claudel, Susan Felleman incorporates feminist and psychoanalytic criticism to reveal individual and collective perspectives on sex, gender, identity, commerce, and class.

Probing more than twenty films from the postwar era through contemporary times, Art in the Cinematic Imagination considers a range of structurally significant art objects, artist characters, and art-world settings to explore how the medium of film can amplify, reinvent, or recontextualize the other visual arts. Fluently speaking across disciplines, Felleman's study brings a broad array of methodologies to bear on questions such as the evolution of the "Hollywood Love Goddess" and the pairing of the feminine with death on screen.

A persuasive approach to an engaging body of films, Art in the Cinematic Imagination illuminates a compelling and significant facet of the cinematic experience.

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Susan Felleman is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She is also the author of Botticelli in Hollywood: The Films of Albert Lewin.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Baring the Device Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 1 The Moving Picture Gallery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
CHAPTER 2 A Form of Necrophilia (The Moving Picture Gallery Revisited) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
CHAPTER 3 The Birth, Death, and Apotheosis of a Hollywood Love Goddess Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
CHAPTER 4 Survivors of the Shipwreck of Modernity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
CHAPTER 5 Out of Her Element Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
CHAPTER 6 Playing with Fire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
CHAPTER 7 Dirty Pictures, Mud Lust, and Abject Desire: Myths of Origin and the Cinematic Object Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189

Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 213

eBook

Published: January 1, 2010
ISBN: 9780292796652