Framing Pictures: Film and the Visual Arts

Steven Jacobs

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2011

Framing Pictures

Film and the Visual Arts

Steven Jacobs

In the series Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748647033

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About this book

Through the feature films and documentaries of directors including Emmer, Erice, Godard, Hitchcock, Pasolini, Resnais, Rossellini and Storck, Jacobs examines the way films 'animate' artworks by means of cinematic techniques, such as camera movements and editing, or by integrating them into a narrative.

He explores how this 'mobilization' of the artwork is brought into play in art documentaries and artist biopics, as well as in feature films containing key scenes situated in museums. The tension between stasis and movement is also discussed in relation to modernist cinema, which often includes tableaux vivants combining pictorial, sculptural and theatrical elements. This tension also marks the aesthetics of the film still, which have inspired prominent art photographers such as Cindy Sherman and Jeff Wall.

Illustrated throughout, Jacobs' study of the presence of art in film, alongside the omnipresence of the filmic image in today's art museums, is an engaging work for students and scholars of film and art alike.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
CHAPTER 1 Camera and Canvas: Emmer, Storck, Resnais and the Post-war Art Film Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 2 Vasari in Hollywood: Artists and Biopics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
CHAPTER 3 Galleries of the Gaze: The Museum in Rossellini’s Viaggio in Italia and Hitchcock’s Vertigo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
CHAPTER 4 Tableaux Vivants 1: Painting, Film, Death and Passion Plays in Pasolini and Godard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
CHAPTER 5 Tableaux Vivants 2: Film Stills and Contemporary Photography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
CHAPTER 6 The Video That Knew Too Much: Hitchcock, Contemporary Art and Post-Cinema Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Appendix to Chapter 2: Artist Biopics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 224
Illustrations
- Other: 36 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: June 13, 2011
ISBN: 9780748647033