
Framing Pictures
Film and the Visual Arts
Steven Jacobs(Author)
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 13. June 2011
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-7486-4017-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
Jacob's detailed discussion of these filmmakers' different strategies brings into relief the critical and aesthetics complexities animating these filmic projects. -- Matilde Nardelli * Oxford Art Journal * Framing Pictures is a welcome, major addition to the literature on the relationships between film and the other visual arts. Lucid, thorough, and wide-ranging, it is the work of a scholar both deeply grounded in the histories of art and cinema and current with contemporary art and critical discourses. Jacobs covers the entire intermedial territory, balancing wonderfully succinct overviews with close consideration of art documentaries, artist biopics, tableaux vivants, film stills, and the cinematic turn in contemporary art. -- Susan Felleman, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, author of Art in the Cinematic Imagination (2006)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
36 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-4017-1 (9780748640171)
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Person
Steven Jacobs teaches film history and film theory at Ghent University and the University of Antwerp.
Content
List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgements1. Camera and Canvas: Emmer, Storck, Resnais and the Post-War Art Film2. Vasari in Hollywood: Biopics and Artists3. Galleries of the Gaze: Museums in Rossellini's Viaggio in Italia and Hitchcock's Vertigo 4. Tableaux Vivants 1: Painting, Film, Death and Passion Plays in Pasolini and Godard5. Tableaux Vivants 2: Film Stills and Contemporary Photography6. The Video That Knew Too Much: Hitchcock, Contemporary Art and Post-CinemaAppendixBibliographyIndex