Figuring the past : period film and the mannerist aesthetic / Belén Vidal.

"This definitive work offers a new approach to the period film at the turn of the twenty-first century, examining the ways in which contemporary cinema recreates the historical past. This book explores the relation between visual motifs and cultural representation in a range of key films by Jam...

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Main Author: Vidal, Belén
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2012.
Series:Film culture in transition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: period film and the mannerist moment
  • A poetics of figuration
  • Present in the past: The house
  • Time and the image: the tableau
  • The scene of writing: the letter
  • Conclusion-Second sight: reviewing the past, figuring the present.