Crossmappings On Visual Culture
Crossmappings On Visual Culture by Elisabeth Bronfen, published by Bloomsbury Academic on August 30, 2018, offers an in-depth exploration of the intersections between literature, cinema, and visual culture. This 432-page work presents a series of essays that engage with the cultural survival of image formulas, examining themes such as portraiture, the uncanny relationship between the body and its visual representation, and the gendering of war and death.
Readers will find a rich discussion of how aesthetic figurations transform across historical moments and mediums. The book delves into the works of notable artists and figures, including Degas, Cindy Sherman, and Shakespeare, while also addressing the cultural implications of film noir, melodrama, and contemporary television series like The Wire and House of Cards. Through these crossmappings, Bronfen invites a critical examination of the dynamics of power and representation in visual culture.
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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.
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