Pretty : film and the decorative image /
Galt, Rosalind.
New York ; Chichester : Columbia University Press,
c2011.
Includes filmography.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-375) and index.
Introduction : the pretty as troublesome image -- From aesthetics to film aesthetics : or, beauty and truth redux -- Colors : Derek Jarman and queer aesthetics -- Ornament and modernity : from decorative art to cultural criticism -- Objects : oriental style and the arabesques of Moulin Rouge! -- At the crossroads : iconoclasm and the anti-aesthetic in postwar film and theory -- Forms : Soy Cuba and revolutionary beauty -- Perverse prettiness : sexuality, gender, and aesthetic exclusion -- Bodies : the sumptuous charms of Ulrike Ottinger -- Postscript : toward a worldly image.
Motion pictures