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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0231153473
ISBN13:9780231153478
Release Date:May 2011
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:408 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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