{"product_id":"pretty-film-and-the-decorative-image-paperback","title":"Pretty: Film and the Decorative Image - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRosalind Galt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilm 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCondemning 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 \u003ci\u003eMoulin Rouge!\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRosalind Galt is senior lecturer in film studies at the University of Sussex. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe New European Cinema: Redrawing the Map\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eGlobal Art Cinema: New Theories and Histories\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 408\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 31, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47454384652466,"sku":"9780231153478","price":72.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/32b94448cbd994671560b02a409e9fa4.webp?v=1778849726","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/pretty-film-and-the-decorative-image-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}