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…mehr
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 The Wire and House of Cards.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Elisabeth Bronfen is Professor of English & American Studies at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and, since 2007, Global Distinguished Professor at New York University, USA. She is a specialist in 19th- and 20th-century literature and her books on psychoanalysis, film, cultural theory and visual culture include Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic; The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and its Discontents; Night Passages: Philosophy, Literature and Film; Home in Hollywood: The Imaginary Geography of Cinema; and Mad Men, Death and the American Dream.
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Introduction Part I. Travelling Image Formulas Chapter 1. Facing Defacement. Degas' Portraits of Women Chapter 2. Naked Touch. Disfiguration, Recognition and the Female Nude Chapter 3. Leaving an Imprint. Francesca Woodman's Photographic tableaux vivants Chapter 4. Pop Cinema. Hollywood's Critical Engagement with America's Culture of Consumption Chapter 5. Hitler Goes Pop. Totalitarianism, Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Hollywood Entertainment Chapter 6. Simulations of the Real. Paul McCarthy's Performance Disasters Chapter 7. Wagner's Isolde in Hollywood Chapter 8. Shakespeare's Wire Chapter 9. Queen of Chess. On Serial Reading Part II: Gendering the Uncanny, Imaging Death Chapter 10. The Horror of the Familiar. Freud's Thoughts on Femininity and the Uncanny Chapter 11. Gendering Curiosity. The Double Games of Siri Hustvedt, Paul Auster and Sophie Calle Chapter 12. The Other Self of the Imagination: Cindy Sherman's Hysterical Performance Chapter 13. Eva Hesse's Spectral Bride and her Uncanny Double Chapter 14. Wounds of Wonder. Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin, Nabuyoshi Araki Chapter 15. The Fragility of the Quotidien. Eija-Liisa Ahtila's Work with Death Chapter 16. Picasso's War Women Chapter 17. Contending with the Father. Louise Bourgeois and her Aesthetics of Reparation Notes Index
Introduction Part I. Travelling Image Formulas Chapter 1. Facing Defacement. Degas' Portraits of Women Chapter 2. Naked Touch. Disfiguration, Recognition and the Female Nude Chapter 3. Leaving an Imprint. Francesca Woodman's Photographic tableaux vivants Chapter 4. Pop Cinema. Hollywood's Critical Engagement with America's Culture of Consumption Chapter 5. Hitler Goes Pop. Totalitarianism, Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Hollywood Entertainment Chapter 6. Simulations of the Real. Paul McCarthy's Performance Disasters Chapter 7. Wagner's Isolde in Hollywood Chapter 8. Shakespeare's Wire Chapter 9. Queen of Chess. On Serial Reading Part II: Gendering the Uncanny, Imaging Death Chapter 10. The Horror of the Familiar. Freud's Thoughts on Femininity and the Uncanny Chapter 11. Gendering Curiosity. The Double Games of Siri Hustvedt, Paul Auster and Sophie Calle Chapter 12. The Other Self of the Imagination: Cindy Sherman's Hysterical Performance Chapter 13. Eva Hesse's Spectral Bride and her Uncanny Double Chapter 14. Wounds of Wonder. Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin, Nabuyoshi Araki Chapter 15. The Fragility of the Quotidien. Eija-Liisa Ahtila's Work with Death Chapter 16. Picasso's War Women Chapter 17. Contending with the Father. Louise Bourgeois and her Aesthetics of Reparation Notes Index
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