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Framing Pictures: Film and the Visual Arts

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Framing Pictures: Film and the Visual Arts - Jacobs, Steven
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Through the feature films and documentaries of directors including Emmer, Erice, Godard, Hitchcock, Pasolini, Resnais, Rossellini and Storck, Jacobs examines the way films 'animate' artworks by means of cinematic techniques, such as camera movements and editing, or by integrating them into a narrative. He explores how this 'mobilization' of the artwork is brought into play in art documentaries and artist biopics, as well as in feature films containing key scenes situated in museums. The tension between stasis and movement ...

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Framing Pictures: Film and the Visual Arts 2012, Edinburgh University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780748668762

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Framing Pictures: Film and the Visual Arts 2011, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

ISBN-13: 9780748640171

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