Framing pictures [electronic resource] : film and the visual arts / Steven Jacobs.

ISBN:

9780748647033

Title:

Author:

Jacobs, Steven, 1967-

Personal Author:

Jacobs, Steven, 1967-

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Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 210 pages) : illustrations.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in film

Contents:

List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER 1 Camera and Canvas: Emmer, Storck, Resnais and the Post-war Art Film -- CHAPTER 2 Vasari in Hollywood: Artists and Biopics -- CHAPTER 3 Galleries of the Gaze: The Museum in Rossellini{u2019}s Viaggio in Italia and Hitchcock{u2019}s Vertigo -- CHAPTER 4 Tableaux Vivants 1: Painting, Film, Death and Passion Plays in Pasolini and Godard -- CHAPTER 5 Tableaux Vivants 2: Film Stills and Contemporary Photography -- CHAPTER 6 The Video That Knew Too Much: Hitchcock, Contemporary Art and Post-Cinema -- Appendix to Chapter 2: Artist Biopics -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Subject Term:

Motion pictures and the arts.

Arts.

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Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2011

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Summary

Through the feature films and documentaries of directors including Emmer, Erice, Godard, Hitchcock, Pasolini, Resnais, Rossellini and Storck, Jacobs examines the way films 'animate' artworks by means of cinematic techniques, such as camera movements and editing, or by integrating them into a narrative. He explores how this 'mobilization' of the artwork is brought into play in art documentaries and artist biopics, as well as in feature films containing key scenes situated in museums. The tension between stasis and movement is also discussed in relation to modernist cinema, which often includes tableaux vivants combining pictorial, sculptural and theatrical elements. This tension also marks the aesthetics of the film still, which have inspired prominent art photographers such as Cindy Sherman and Jeff Wall.Illustrated throughout, Jacobs' study of the presence of art in film, alongside the omnipresence of the filmic image in today's art museums, is an engaging work for students and scholars of film and art alike.

Reviews (1)

Choice Review

This interesting, eccentric volume documents cinematic interpretations of paintings, sculpture, and other art works, both in films dedicated solely to the work of art itself (as in the case of Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Mystery of Picasso) and in films in which the work of art is featured as a part of the overall narrative (as in Roberto Rossellini's Voyage in Italy). Jean Cocteau gets comparatively short shrift; one could argue that all of his films are, in some ways, constructed as paintings or designs. And Jacobs (who teaches film history and film theory in several universities in Belgium) missed Wendy Toye's "In the Picture" segment of Three Cases of Murder, a really remarkable film that interrogates what is happening in the interior world of a specific painting, as a rather macabre fantasy. Also disappointing are the frame blow-ups, which are neither plentiful nor in color. A book that deals with Renoir, Picasso, Hockney, et al. should reproduce their work in something like their original glory. In sum, this is an accomplished, thorough book that needed better presentation (and should be reissued with color plates). Summing Up: Optional. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. W. W. Dixon University of Nebraska--Lincoln