Description
Book SynopsisFocusing on intermediality,
The Material Image situates film within questions of representation familiar from painting and theatrical practices.
Trade Review"In short, great writing and great reading, whose impact should not remain confined to the sole field of film studies, but considered very carefully by all those who, in literary theory for instance, want to better understand why and how texts matter." --
LeonardoTable of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Art and the Real in Film... Material Effects Reality Effects/Games With Illusion Illusion and Mimetic Drive Art Effects I. Art and Embodimentu Chapter 1: The Moment of Portraiture: Scorsese Reads Wharton... Intermedial Layering: The Tableau Moment Picture Writing Chapter 2: Dutch Realism: Vermeer, Greenaway, Wenders... Tableau Vivant and Hybridity "The Flesh of a Human Presence" The Keplerian Mode and the Operation of the Eye Why Tableau Vivant? Chapter 3: The Fascist Choreography: Riefenstahl's Tableaux... Tableaux and Trionfi Body Art: Sculpture and Dance Tableau and Photograph Chapter 4: The Scene of Art in Hitchcock Hitchcock, Part I: The Cut of Representation... ... Natures mortes, Trophies, and Mummies The Janus-Face Decapitations: Cut-outs and Busts Tableaux vivants; femmes mortes The Shield of Perseus P-'y" II. Illusions of the Real Hitchcock, Part II: The Picture Looks Back... Portrait, Window, Mirror The "Reality Bleed" and the Spectator in the Film Oscillating Effects Chapter 5: Kubrick and Kafka: The Corporeal Uncanny... Photographs and Stories Material Images "Canniness," or the Vital Domain Shutting the Eyes/Eyes Wide Shut Chapter 6: The Castrato's Voices: Fassbinder's In a Year of Thirteen Moons... Textualities, the Voice, and the Real The Maternal Voice: Word Into Flesh Tableau: Elvire's Passion Mute Body/Flayed Text III. Art and Embodied Spectatorship Chapter 7: Violence and Affect: Haneke's Modernist Melodramas Haneke, Part I: BourgeoisTableaux... Cold Image, Hot Affect Effects of the Real Haneke, Part II: Assaulting the Spectator and Other Games... Looking and Pain The Masochistic Tableau Sentiment, Music, and the Real Chapter 8: Images of Horror: Taste, Cannibalism, and Visual Display... Touch, Taste, Vision Metaphorical Cannibalism: Hitchcock's Hunger Literal Cannibalism: Psychotic Appetites, Trophies, Tableaux The Eye as Mouth Notes Index
