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Paperback Pretty: Film and the Decorative Image Book

ISBN: 0231153473

ISBN13: 9780231153478

Pretty: Film and the Decorative Image

(Part of the Film and Culture Series Series)

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Film culture often rejects visually rich images, treating simplicity, austerity, or even ugliness as the more provocative, political, and truly cinematic choice. Cinema may challenge traditional ideas of art, but its opposition to the decorative represents a long-standing Western aesthetic bias against feminine cosmetics, Oriental effeminacy, and primitive ornament. Inheriting this patriarchal, colonial perspective--which treats decorative style...

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