The Visual Turn (Rutgers Depth of Field Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081353173X ISBN 13: 9780813531731

Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 2002

Synopsis

A collection of cutting-edge articles that demonstrate an implicit dialogue between art historians and film specialists.

The Visual Turn is a cutting-edge dialogue between art historians and film theorists from the silent period to the aftermath of World War II. Its aim is to broaden the horizons of film studies, while making students of art history more comfortable when they approach the key texts of classical film theory.

Through pairings of articles, The Visual Turn demonstrates that an implicit dialogue between art historians and film specialists has enriched both fields for decades. By combining original essays, reprints, and translations from French and Italian, The Visual Turn makes this little-known dialogue between two disciplines speak about such rich issues as: iconophobia, iconophilia, and iconoclasm; haptic and optical images; cognitivism and aesthetics; visual form, history, and technology.

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About the Author

Angela Dalle Vacche teaches film studies in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Ivan Allen College of the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the author of The Body in the Mirror: Shapes of History in Italian Cinema and Cinema and Painting: How Art is Used in Film.

From the Back Cover

The Visual Turn is a cutting-edge dialogue between art historians and film theorists from the silent period to the aftermath of World War II. Its aim is to broaden the horizons of film studies, while making students of art history more comfortable when they approach the key texts of classical film theory.

Through pairings of articles, The Visual Turn demonstrates that an implicit dialogue between art historians and film specialists has enriched both fields for decades. By combining original essays, reprints, and translations from French and Italian, The Visual Turn makes this little-known dialogue between two disciplines speak about such rich issues as: iconophobia, iconophilia, and iconoclasm; haptic and optical images; cognitivism and aesthetics; visual form, history, and technology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081353173X
• ISBN 13: 9780813531731
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Angela Dalle Vacche