Cinema 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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Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Fischer, Lucy (VerfasserIn)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, 2017.
Schriftenreihe:Film and culture.
Online-Zugang:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1821388
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.