Crossmappings On Visual Culture

The influential cultural critic Elisabeth Bronfen sets out in this book a conversation between literature, cinema, and visual culture. The crossmappings in and between these essays address the cultural survival of image formulas involving portraiture and the uncanny relation between the body and its representability, the gendering of war, death and the fragility of life, as well as sovereignty and political power.Each chapter tracks transformations that occur as aesthetic figurations travel not only from one historical moment to the next, but also from one medium to another. Following Bronfen on these journeys into the cultural imaginary, the reader encounters prominent artists such as Edgar Degas, Francesca Woodman, Paul McCarthy, Eva Hesse, Louise Bourgeois, Richard Wagner, Pablo Picasso and William Shakespeare, alongside Classical Hollywood''s film noir and melodrama, and the TV series and House of Cards.

Product details

• Authors: Bronfen Elisabeth, Elisabeth Bronfen
• Assisted by: Griselda Pollock (Foreword)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.08.2022
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design
• EAN: 9781350297029
• ISBN: 978-1-350-29702-9
• Pages: 432
• Dimensions (packing): 15.6 x 23.4 x 2.6 cm
• Series: New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts
• Subjects: Hollywood, Shakespeare, Degas, Cultural History, Theory of art, Social & cultural history, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Criticism & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, Film Theory, Philosophy: aesthetics, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Literary theory, Film Theory & Criticism, Cultural and media studies, cinema history, cinema theory