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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRemarkably wide-ranging and engagingly intricate. Rosalind Galt's argument is bold, its mode of argumentation sure and convincing. This very original take on culturally received and culturally determining ideas and emotions surrounding visual pleasure is long overdue. Galt's book is a necessary contribution to the study of the image in film and visuality studies. -- Brigitte Peucker, author of The Material Image: Art and the Real in Film and Incorporating Images: Film and the Rival Arts One of the most attractive features of Galt's book is her ability to corral so many different iterations of art and film criticism and provide so many examples from world cinema, effecting in the end a general theory of world cinema, of a pretty world cinema. -- Akira Mizuta Lippit, University of Southern California Brilliantly engaging and absolutely knowledgeable. This is a key work... Highly recommended. Choice
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Pretty as Troublesome Image 1. From Aesthetics to Film Aesthetics: Or, Beauty and Truth Redux 2. Colors: Derek Jarman and Queer Aesthetics 3. Ornament and Modernity: From Decorative Art to Cultural Criticism 4. Objects: Oriental Style and the Arabesques of Moulin Rouge! 5. At the Crossroads: Iconoclasm and the Anti-aesthetic in Postwar Film and Theory 6. Forms: Soy Cuba and Revolutionary Beauty 7. Perverse Prettiness: Sexuality, Gender, and Aesthetic Exclusion 8. Bodies: The Sumptuous Charms of Ulrike Ottinger Postscript: Toward a Worldly Image Notes Filmography Bibliography Index
