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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.
Contents
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
