List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements 1. Camera and Canvas: Emmer, Storck, Resnais and the Post-War Art Film 2. Vasari in Hollywood: Biopics and Artists 3. Galleries of the Gaze: Museums in Rossellini's Viaggio in Italia and Hitchcock's Vertigo 4. Tableaux Vivants 1: Painting, Film, Death and Passion Plays in Pasolini and Godard 5. Tableaux Vivants 2: Film Stills and Contemporary Photography 6. The Video That Knew Too Much: Hitchcock, Contemporary Art and Post-Cinema Appendix Bibliography Index
Steven Jacobs teaches film history and film theory at Sint-Lukas College of Art Brussels, the Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, and the University of Antwerp.
Framing Pictures is a welcome, major addition to the literature on the relationships between film and the other visual arts. Lucid, thorough, and wide-ranging, it is the work of a scholar both deeply grounded in the histories of art and cinema and current with contemporary art and critical discourses. Jacobs covers the entire intermedial territory, balancing wonderfully succinct overviews with close consideration of art documentaries, artist biopics, tableaux vivants, film stills, and the cinematic turn in contemporary art. -- Susan Felleman, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, author of Art in the Cinematic Imagination (2006) Framing Pictures is a welcome, major addition to the literature on the relationships between film and the other visual arts. Lucid, thorough, and wide-ranging, it is the work of a scholar both deeply grounded in the histories of art and cinema and current with contemporary art and critical discourses. Jacobs covers the entire intermedial territory, balancing wonderfully succinct overviews with close consideration of art documentaries, artist biopics, tableaux vivants, film stills, and the cinematic turn in contemporary art.
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