Screening Statues: Sculpture in Film

Steven Jacobs; Susan Felleman; Vito Adriaensens

Screening Statues

Sculpture in Film

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Steven Jacobs, Ghent University and the University of Antwerp, Susan Felleman, University of South Carolina, Vito Adriaensens, Columbia University

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: June 2018
Print publication year:: 2017
Online ISBN:: 9781474410908

Subjects:: Film, Film, Media, Mass Communication
Series:: Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality

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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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Sculpture in Film

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Figures
pp vii-x

Acknowledgements
pp xi-xii

Introduction: The Marble Camera
pp 1-26

PART I
pp 27-28

1 - The Sculptor's Dream: Living Statues in Early Cinema
pp 29-45

2 - The Mystery … The Blood … The Age of Gold: Sculpture in Surrealist and Surreal Cinema
pp 46-64

3 - Carving Cameras on Thorvaldsen and Rodin: Mid-Twentieth- Century Documentaries on Sculpture
pp 65-83

4 - Anatomy of an Ovidian Cinema: Mysteries of the Wax Museum
pp 84-100

5 - The Night of the Human Body: Statues and Fantasy in Postwar American Cinema
pp 101-117

6 - From Pompeii to Marienbad: Classical Sculptures in Postwar European Modernist Cinema
pp 118-136

7 - Of Swords, Sandals, and Statues: The Myth of the Living Statue
pp 137-155

8 - Coda: Returning the Favor (A Short History of Film Becoming Sculpture)
pp 156-168

PART II
pp 169-170

Sculpture Gallery: 150 Statues from European and American Cinema
pp 171-250

Bibliography
pp 251-262

About the Authors
pp 263-264

Index
pp 265-276

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