Fischer Cinema by Design

Art Nouveau, Modernism, and Film History
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-231-54422-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Film and Culture Series

Cinema by Design traces Art Nouveau’s long history in films from various decades and global locales, appreciating the movement’s enduring avant-garde aesthetics. Lucy Fischer explains why an art movement embedded in modernist sensibilities can flourish in contemporary film through its visions of nature, gender, sexuality, and the exotic.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fischer, Lucy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Design Design: Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Art Nouveau and the Age of Attractions
2. Art Nouveau and American Film of the 1920s: Prestige, Class, Fantasy, and the Exotic
3. Architecture and the City: Barcelona, Gaudí, and the Cinematic Imaginary
4. Art Nouveau, Chambers of Horror, and "The Jew in the Text"
5. Art Nouveau, Patrimony, and the Art World
Epilogue: The 1960s and the Art Nouveau Revival
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lucy Fischer is Distinguished Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of eleven books, including Designing Women: Art Deco, Cinema and the Female Form (Columbia, 2003); Body Double: The Author Incarnate in the Cinema (2013); and Art Direction and Production Design (2015). She has held curatorial positions at The Museum of Modern Art and The Carnegie Museum of Art.