Douglas Sirk, Aesthetic Modernism and the Culture of Modernity

Victoria L. Evans

- Get access
  
  Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
  
  Log in Register

Victoria L. Evans, Dunedin Film Society

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: December 2017
Print publication year:: 2017
Online ISBN:: 9781474409407

Subjects:: Film, Film, Media, Mass Communication

Export citation

Information

Contents

Metrics

With detailed case studies of "Final Chord" and "All That Heaven Allows", Victoria Evans demonstrates how Sirk attempted to dissolve the boundaries of cinema by assimilating elements of avant-garde art, architecture and design into the colour, composition and setting of many of his most well-known films.

- Aa Reduce text
- Aa Enlarge text

View selected items
Save to my bookmarks
Export citations
Download PDF (zip)
Save to Kindle
Save to Dropbox
Save to Google Drive
Save content to
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to .

To save content items to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Please be advised that item(s) you selected are not available.
You are about to save
Your Kindle email address

Please provide your Kindle email.

@free.kindle.com @kindle.com (service fees apply)

By using this service, you agree that you will only keep content for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing services

Metrics

Altmetric attention score

Total number of HTML views: 0

Total number of PDF views: 0 *

Loading metrics...

Total views: 0 *

Loading metrics...

* Views captured on Cambridge Core between #date#. This data will be updated every 24 hours.

Usage data cannot currently be displayed.

Douglas Sirk, Aesthetic Modernism and the Culture of Modernity

Book description

Refine List

Actions for selected content:

Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

List of Figures
pp vi-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Introduction
pp 1-10

PART ONE - SIRK AND THE VISUAL ARTS
pp 11-12

1 - Thinking with the Heart: Sirk and Pictorial Reception
pp 13-33

2 - Concerning the Spiritual in Art: Magnificent Obsession and the Influence of Modernist Painting
pp 34-62

PART TWO - THE SHOCK OF THE NEW: TRACES OF MODERNITY
pp 63-64

3 - The Invasion of Machines and Machine Culture
pp 65-87

4 - Imitation of Life and the Depiction of Suburban Space
pp 88-112

PART THREE - TWO ARCHITECTURAL CASE STUDIES
pp 113-114

5 - Final Chord and ‘Die Neue Welt’: The Mise-en-scène of Aufbruch
pp 115-146

6 - Back to the Future: Modernist Architecture and All That Heaven Allows
pp 147-178

Bibliography
pp 179-190

Index
pp 191-196

Metrics

Altmetric attention score

Full text views

Book summary page views

Douglas Sirk, Aesthetic Modernism and the Culture of Modernity

Book description

Refine List

Actions for selected content:

Save Search

Contents

Metrics

Altmetric attention score

Full text views

Book summary page views