Elisabeth Bronfen

Crossmappings (eBook, PDF)

On Visual Culture

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The great, influential cultural critic, Elisabeth Bronfen, sets out in this book a conversation between literature, cinema and visual culture. The crossmappings facilitated in and between these essays address the cultural survival of image formulas involving portraiture and the uncanny relation between the body and its visual 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 from one historical moment to another, but also from one medium to another. Many prominent artists are discussed during these journeys into the cultural imaginary, include Degas, Francesca Woodman, Cindy Sherman, Paul McCarthy, Eva Hesse, Louise Bourgeois, Wagner, Picasso, and Shakespeare, as well as classic Hollywood's film noir and melodrama and the TV series, The Wire and House of Cards.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781838608316
• Artikelnr.: 56527760

Autorenporträt

Elisabeth Bronfen is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She is the author of several books including Serial Shakespeare. An Infinite Variety of Appropriations in American T.V. Drama (2020), Night Passages. Philosophy, Literature, and Film (2013) and Crossmappings. On Visual Culture (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Crossmappings. Visual Readings as a Critical Intervention in
the Cultural Imaginary 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