{"product_id":"the-material-image-9780804754316","title":"The Material Image","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocusing on intermediality, \u003ci\u003eThe Material Image\u003c\/i\u003e situates film within questions of representation familiar from painting and theatrical practices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" -- \u003ci\u003eLeonardo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  \t\t\t\t  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  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tP-'y\"\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  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  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  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...\t  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\t  Effects of the Real  Haneke, Part II: Assaulting the Spectator and Other Games...  Looking and Pain  The Masochistic Tableau  Sentiment, Music, and the Real  \t  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","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405566026071,"sku":"9780804754316","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804754316.jpg?v=1730492855","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-material-image-9780804754316","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}