Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts / / ed. by Pietro Conte, Andrea Pinotti, Barbara Grespi, Alessandra Violi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Baldacci, Cristina,; Bertolini, Michele,; Bronfen, Elisabeth,; Cometa, Michele,; Conte, Pietro,; Damiani, Sara,; Farinotti, Luisella,; Fimiani, Filippo,; Grazioli, Elio,; Grespi, Barbara,; Hediger, Vinzenz,; Le Maître, Barbara,; Luppi, Anna,; Malavasi, Luca,; Perletti, Greta,; Pinotti, Andrea,; Romani, Silvia,; Somaini, Antonio,; Villa, Federica,; Violi, Alessandra,
• HerausgeberIn: Conte, Pietro,; Grespi, Barbara,; Pinotti, Andrea,; Violi, Alessandra,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)

If mediatization has surprisingly revealed the secret life of inert matter and the 'face of things', the flipside of this has been the petrification of living organisms, an invasion of stone bodies in a state of suspended animation. Within a contemporary imaginary pervaded by new forms of...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• I. Statue: The Imaginary of Uncertain Petrification
• Introduction
• 1. Theatre and Memory: The Body-as-Statue in Early Modern Culture
• 2. Translated Bodies: A ‘Cartographic’ Approach
• 3. Pantomime in Stone: Performance of the Pose and Animal Camouflage
• 4. Animated Statues and Petrified Bodies : A Journey Inside Fantasy Cinema
• 5. The Ephemeral Cathedral : Bodies of Stone and Configurations of Film
• II. Matter: Size, Hardness, Duration
• Introduction
• 1. Bodies That Matter: Miniaturisation and the Origin(s) of ‘Art’
• 2. Brancusi’s ‘Sculpture for the Blind’
• 3. Cinema, Phenomenology and Hyperrealism
• 4. Ephemeral Bodies: The ‘Candles’ of Urs Fischer
• 5. The Celluloid and the Death Mask : Bazin’s and Eisenstein’s Image Anthropology
• III. Corpse: Fossils, Auto-Icons, Revenants
• Introduction
• 1. Funeral Eulogy : Post-Mortem Figures and Redeemed Bodies, in Images
• 2. On Jack Torrance As a Fossil Form
• 3. Technical Images and the Transformation of Matter in Eighteenth-Century Tuscany
• 4. Glass, Mixed Media, Stone : The Bodily Stuffs of Suspended Animation
• 5. Bodies’ Strange Stories : Les Revenants and The Leftovers
• IV. Monument: Embodying And Grafting
• Introduction
• 1. The Impassibly Fleshly, the Statue of the Impossible
• 2. Frozen into Allegory: Cleopatra’s Cultural Survival
• 3. The Orphan Image
• 4. The Well-Tempered Memorial : Abstraction, Anthropomorphism, Embodiment
• 5. Monuments of the Heart : Living Tombs and Organic Memories in Contemporary Culture
• Index