
Screening Statues
Sculpture and Cinema
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 26. February 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-4744-3170-5 (ISBN)
Description
Screening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema is the first book to focus on the relationship between sculpture and the silver screen. It covers a broad range of magical, mystical and phenomenological interactions between the two media, from early film's eroticized tableaux vivants to enigmatic sculptures in modernist cinema. Sculptures are literally brought to life on the silver screen, while living people are turned into, or trapped inside, statuary. The 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. Considering the work of directors like Georges Melies, Jean Cocteau and Alain Resnais, as well as films like House of Wax, Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans, this is an innovative exploration of two different media, their artistic traditions and their respective theoretical paradigms.
Reviews / Votes
[Screening Statues] guarantees the reader access to a real textbook on sculpture and film, appealing to art lovers and film fans alike. This is a book that has long been due in that it fills a major gap in the field of statuary in film.' -- Fatima Chinita * Aniki * Comprising a wealth of citations, investigative essays, conceptual and corporeal discussions, as well as the prolific supplemental reference gallery in part II, Screening Statues is a venerable text in which to further explore the confluence of two intermedial forms, indebted to and entrenched within one another.' -- Matthew Johnson * Film Matters * Comprising a wealth of citations, investigative essays, conceptual and corporeal discussions, as well as the prolific supplemental reference gallery in part II, Screening Statues is a venerable text in which to further explore the confluence of two intermedial forms, indebted to and entrenched within one another.' -- Matthew Johnson * Film Matters * Screening Statues marks an important contribution to the study of sculpture in film, not only as a record of sculpture's presence in film but also as a critical approach to the tensions and complexities that arise in film between human actors and their sculptural counterparts. -- Jessica Schouela * Sculpture Journal * Film, the art of movement, approaches the statue as its other. As this multi-author volume shows, if film represents sculpture in conjunction with dance, it can also petrify actors. And while film can evince sculpture's tactility, sculpture has had recourse to the filmstrip as its material. Not surprisingly, Pygmalion finds a central place in this volume and tableau vivant does, as well. Historical and informative, yet interpretive and an engaging read, these essays with their gallery of images provide a trove of material to be explored. -- Professor Brigitte Peucker, Yale UniversityMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
225 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-3170-5 (9781474431705)
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Persons
Steven Jacobs teaches film history and film theory at Ghent University and the University of Antwerp. Susan Felleman is Professor of Art History and Film and Media Studies at the University of South Carolina. Vito Adriaensens is a scholar and filmmaker. He is currently Assistant Professor of Experimental Film and Media at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Lisa Colpaert is a fashion designer and a film historian. She works as a curator for Cinea at the Royal Belgian Film Archive and is undertaking a practice-based PhD at the London College of Fashion (University of the Arts London).
Author
Assistant ProfessorGhent University and the University of Antwerp
Professor of Art History and Film and Media StudiesUniversity of South Carolina
Assistant Professor of Experimental Film and MediaNew York University
Fashion Designer and a Film HistorianCinea at the Royal Belgian Film Archive
Content
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
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