Figuring the Past

Period Film and the Mannerist Aesthetic

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de Belén Vidal

Type

Studies

Sujet

Genre > Historical films

Mots Clés

historical films, aesthetics

Année d'édition

2012

Editeur

Amsterdam University Press

Collection

Film Culture in Transition

Langue

anglais

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Format

Paperback • 256 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-90-8964-282-0

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Description de l'ouvrage:
This definitive work offers a new approach to the period film at the turn of the twenty-first century, examining the ways in which contemporary cinema recreates the historical past. This book explores the relation between visual motifs and cultural representation in a range of key films by James Ivory, Martin Scorsese and Jane Campion, among others. Looking at the mannerist taste for citation, detail and stylisation, the author argues for an aesthetic of fragments and figures central to the period film as an international genre. Three key figures - the house, the tableau and the letter - structure a critical journey through a selection of detailed case studies, in relation to changing notions of visual style, melodrama, and gender. This seeks to place this popular but often undervalued genre in a new light and to rethink its significance in the context of key debates in film studies.

À propos de l'auteur :
Belén Vidal is lecturer in film studies at King’s College London, co-editor (with Dina Iordanova and David Martin-Jones) of Cinema at the Periphery (Wayne State University Press, 2010) and author of Heritage Film: Nation Genre and Representation (Wallflower/Columbia University Press, forthcoming).

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