Moving Pictures and Renaissance Art History / / Patricia Emison.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Emison, Patricia,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Film Culture in Transition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (582 p.)

Film, like the printed imagery inaugurated during the Renaissance, spread ideas---not least the idea of the power of visual art---across not only geographical and political divides but also strata of class and gender. Moving Pictures and Renaissance Art History examines the early flourishing of film, 1920s-mid-60s, as partly reprising the introduction of mass media in the Renaissance, allowing for innovation that reflected an art free of the control of a patron though required to attract a broad public. Rivalry between word and image, narrative and visual composition shifted in both cases toward acknowledging the compelling nature of the visual. The twentieth century also saw the development of the discipline of art history; transfusions between cinematic practice and art historical postulates and preoccupations are part of the story told here.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Prologue -- 1. The New and the Old in the Art of Cinema -- 2. The Machine Aesthetic -- 3. Competing with Text -- 4. After Eve -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- List of Films -- Index