Velvet Curtains and Gilded Frames : The Art of Early European Cinema (Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality)

Adriaensens, Vito

Edinburgh University Press（2025/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 224 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399554176
• DDC分類 791.43094

Full Description

Velvet Curtains and Gilded Frames explores the intermedial context of early cinema. It tackles the first European feature films' intricate relationship with its sister arts to reveal that the period referred to by historians as the "long nineteenth century" was one in which Bourgeois Realism reigned supreme. The nineteenth-century rise of the middle class coincided with realism becoming the dominant artistic mode in both form and content, leading to a revival of genre painting in the art academies; the supremacy of the social melodrama on the stage; and the advent of Pictorialism in photography. In its quest for artistic legitimacy, European filmmakers sought to win over middle-class audiences with films based on popular works of art - the first "art films" - by employing similar visual and narrative strategies as its artistic counterparts.

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: History, Intermediality and Early European Cinema

The Birth of a Sixth Art: The Art Film and the Film-as-Art Discourse

Behind the Velvet Curtain: The Cultural Communion between Stage and Screen

An Actress for Our Age: Betty Nansen, Modern Media Icon

In Another Light: Academic Painting, Pictorial Photography, Bourgeois Cinema
Old Masters Endure: Victor Sjöström's Netherlandish Tableaux

Conclusion: Towards a Cultural Poetics of Early European Cinema

Bibliography and Filmography

About the Author

Index