Screening Statues

Sculpture and Cinema

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by Steven Jacobs, Susan Felleman and Vito Adriaensens

Type: Studies
Subject: General
Keywords: sculpture, arts
Publishing date: 2017
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Collection: Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality
Language: English

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Hardcover • 224 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4744-1089-2

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Book Presentation:
Explores the interaction between sculpture and cinema

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 Méliès, 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.

Key Features
• A unique book-length study of sculpture and cinema
• Explores the cinematic form and function of sculpture in 8 case studies that represent diverse genres and traditions throughout film history
• Features an extensive reference gallery of 150 films with short entries on each
• Innovatively brings together two media, their artistic traditions, and their respective theoretical paradigms

About the authors:
Steven Jacobs teaches film history and film theory at Ghent University and the University of Antwerp.
Susan Felleman is Professor of Art History and Film and Media Studies at the University of South Carolina.
Vito Adriaensens is a scholar and filmmaker. He is currently Assistant Professor of Experimental Film and Media at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
Lisa Colpaert is a fashion designer and a film historian. She works as a curator for Cinea at the Royal Belgian Film Archive and is undertaking a practice-based PhD at the London College of Fashion (University of the Arts London).

Press Reviews:
[Screening Statues] guarantees the reader access to a real textbook on sculpture and film, appealing to art lovers and film fans alike. This is a book that has long been due in that it fills a major gap in the field of statuary in film.'– Fátima Chinita, Aniki

Comprising a wealth of citations, investigative essays, conceptual and corporeal discussions, as well as the prolific supplemental reference gallery in part II, Screening Statues is a venerable text in which to further explore the confluence of two intermedial forms, indebted to and entrenched within one another.'– Matthew Johnson, Film Matters

Comprising a wealth of citations, investigative essays, conceptual and corporeal discussions, as well as the prolific supplemental reference gallery in part II, Screening Statues is a venerable text in which to further explore the confluence of two intermedial forms, indebted to and entrenched within one another.'– Matthew Johnson, Film Matters

Screening Statues marks an important contribution to the study of sculpture in film, not only as a record of sculpture’s presence in film but also as a critical approach to the tensions and complexities that arise in film between human actors and their sculptural counterparts.– Jessica Schouela, Sculpture Journal

Film, the art of movement, approaches the statue as its other. As this multi-author volume shows, if film represents sculpture in conjunction with dance, it can also petrify actors. And while film can evince sculpture’s tactility, sculpture has had recourse to the filmstrip as its material. Not surprisingly, Pygmalion finds a central place in this volume and tableau vivant does, as well. Historical and informative, yet interpretive and an engaging read, these essays with their gallery of images provide a trove of material to be explored.– Professor Brigitte Peucker, Yale University

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