Pretty film and the decorative image /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Film and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the pretty as troublesome image
- From aesthetics to film aesthetics: or, beauty and truth redux
- Colors: Derek Jarman and queer aesthetics
- Ornament and modernity: from decorative art to cultural criticism
- Objects: oriental style and the arabesques of Moulin Rouge!
- At the crossroads: iconoclasm and the anti-aesthetic in postwar film and theory
- Forms: Soy Cuba and revolutionary beauty
- Perverse prettiness: sexuality, gender, and aesthetic exclusion
- Bodies: the sumptuous charms of Ulrike Ottinger
- Postscript: toward a worldly image.