Pretty [electronic resource] : film and the decorative image / Rosalind Galt.
Series: Film and culturePublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 2011.Description: xi, 390 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 791.4301 22
- PN1995 .G245 2011eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography.
Introduction: the pretty as troublesome image -- From aesthetics to film aesthetics: or, beauty and truth redux -- Colors: Derek Jarman and queer aesthetics -- Ornament and modernity: from decorative art to cultural criticism -- Objects: oriental style and the arabesques of Moulin Rouge! -- At the crossroads: iconoclasm and the anti-aesthetic in postwar film and theory -- Forms: Soy Cuba and revolutionary beauty -- Perverse prettiness: sexuality, gender, and aesthetic exclusion -- Bodies: the sumptuous charms of Ulrike Ottinger -- Postscript: toward a worldly image.
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