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Title:
Pretty : film and the decorative image
Author:
Galt, Rosalind.
ISBN:
9780231526951
Publication Information:
New York : Columbia University Press, ©2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 390 pages) : illustrations.
Series:
Film and culture

Film and culture.
Abstract:
Film culture often rejects visually rich images, valuing simplicity, austerity, or even ugliness as more provocative, political, and truly cinematic. Although cinema challenges traditional ideas of art, this opposition to the decorative continues a long-standing aesthetic antipathy to feminine cosmetics, Oriental effeminacy, and primitive ornament. Inheriting this patriarchal and colonial perspective along with the preference for fine over decorative art, filmmakers, critics, and theorists tend to denigrate cinema's colorful, picturesque, and richly patterned visions. Condemning th.
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