Research Catalog

Title

Real objects in unreal situations : modern art in fiction films / Susan Felleman.

Author

Felleman, Susan.

Publication

Bristol, UK : Intellect, 2014.

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Description

xi, 203 p. : illustrations (some col.); 24 cm

Summary

This book is a lucid account of a much neglected subject in art and cinema studies: the material significance of the art object incorporated into the fiction film. By examining the historical, political, and personal realities that situate the art works, Susan Felleman offers an incisive account of how they operate not as objects but as powerful players within the films, thereby exceeding the narrative function of mere props, copies, pastiches, or reproductions. The book consists of a series of interconnected case studies of movies, including ‘Pride & Prejudice’, ‘The Trouble with Harry’, and ‘The Player’, ultimately showing that when real art works enter into fiction films, they embody themes and discourses in a way that other objects often cannot.

Alternative Title

Modern art in fiction films

Subject

• Art in motion pictures
• Motion pictures > Setting and scenery

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : the work of art in the space of its material dissolution -- Doubly immortal : The song of songs (1933) -- Suspect modernism : Venus vor Gericht (1941) and Muerte de un ciclista (1955) -- The world gone wiggy : The trouble with Harry (1955) -- Art for the apocalypse : The damned (1961) -- Object choices : An unmarried woman (1978) and The player (1992) -- Subjects, objects, and erotic upheaval at Pemberley : Pride & prejudice (2005).

ISBN

• 9781783202508
• 1783202505

OCLC

• 875151757
• SCSB-11600516

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library