Pretty: Film and the Decorative Image

by Rosalind Galt

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231153473
• ISBN13: 9780231153478
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher