Screen LibraryCinema by design : art nouveau, modernism, and film history /
Art Nouveau thrived from the late 1890s through the First World War. The international design movement reveled in curvilinear forms and both playful and macabre visions and had a deep impact on cinematic art direction, costuming, gender representation, genre, and theme. Though historians have long d...
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Columbia University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Film and culture series
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Art Nouveau thrived from the late 1890s through the First World War. The international design movement reveled in curvilinear forms and both playful and macabre visions and had a deep impact on cinematic art direction, costuming, gender representation, genre, and theme. Though historians have long dismissed Art Nouveau as a decadent cultural mode, its tremendous afterlife in cinema proves otherwise. In Cinema by Design, Lucy Fischer traces Art Nouveau's long history in films from various decades and global locales, appreciating the movement's enduring avant-garde aesthetics and dynamic ideol |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 265 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9780231175036 0231175027 9780231175029 0231175035 9780231544221 0231544227 |
| Index Number: | PN1995 |
| CLC: | J90 |
| Call Number: | J90/F529 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Art Nouveau and the age of attractions -- Art nouveau and American film of the 1920s: prestige, class, fantasy, and the exotic -- Architecture and the city: Barcelona, Gaudí, and the cinematic imaginary -- Art nouveau, chambers of horror, and "the Jew in the text" -- Art nouveau, patrimony, and the art world -- Epilogue: the 1960s and the Art nouveau revival. |