Pretty: Film and the Decorative Image (Film and Culture Series)

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Film culture often rejects visually rich images, treating simplicity, austerity, or even ugliness as the more provocative, political, and truly cinematic choice. Cinema may challenge traditional ideas of art, but its opposition to the decorative represents a long-standing Western aesthetic bias against feminine cosmetics, Oriental effeminacy, and primitive ornament. Inheriting this patriarchal, colonial perspective—which treats decorative style as foreign or sexually perverse—filmmakers, critics, and theorists have often denigrated colorful, picturesque, and richly patterned visions in cinema.Condemning the exclusion of the "pretty" from masculine film culture, Rosalind Galt reevaluates received ideas about the decorative impulse from early film criticism to classical and postclassical film theory. The pretty embodies lush visuality, dense mise-en-scène, painterly framing, and arabesque camera movements-styles increasingly central to world cinema. From European art cinema to the films of Wong Kar-wai and Santosh Sivan, from the experimental films of Derek Jarman to the popular pleasures of Moulin Rouge!, the pretty is a vital element of contemporary cinema, communicating distinct sexual and political identities. Inverting the logic of anti-pretty thought, Galt firmly establishes the decorative image as a queer aesthetic, uniquely able to figure cinema's perverse pleasures and cross-cultural encounters. Creating her own critical tapestry from perspectives in art theory, film theory, and philosophy, Galt reclaims prettiness as a radically transgressive style, shimmering with threads of political agency. (11/1/2011)
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Film Frame 8x10 Picture Strip 35mm Photo Glass Display Standing Portrait One

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Today I want to tell you about our Film Style Glass Picture Frames.Its a Great Day Here on Wisdom Creek and You ought to be in pictures; So saddle up and lets get started! Wow, this is the picture frame for the movie star in all of us This Glass frame is made to look like film.(For you youngsters, film is how we used to capture photographs and movies before digital equipment; it used to look like these frames.) Every photo makes you look like a star. This is a great gift idea for photographers or movie buffs. Even for those you know who are simply gorgeous. This is a quality frame constructed of heavy Glass so it is always tasteful and elegant. The black color accents the photo while looking exquisite sitting on almost any medium. The film strip design draws attention to the photos and adds a studio quality to the décor. The frame is 11 3/4 inches tall by 9 3/4 inches wide and it holds a photo sized 8 inches wide by 10 inches tall. The frame is free standing and has a metal rod prop that provides the stabil
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Vintage Film Set

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$595.00 USD
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Replicas of antique projectors, this vintage film set is the perfect addition to a media room or office. Movie buffs and camera buffs alike are sure to love them. Imported. Handcrafted of shesham wood, brass, celluloid, and plastic. Hand-painted antiqued brass and walnut finish. Sold as set of three. Vintage camera, 8.5"W x 13"D x 15"T; single-reel projector, 8.5"W x 11"D x 20"T; dual-reel projector, 8"W x 13.5"D x 19.5"T.
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