Dark galleries
Subtitle: a museum guide to painted portraits in film noir, gothic melodramas and ghost stories of the 1940s and 1950s
By: Steven Jacobs & Lisa Colpaert
Contributors: Colpaert, Lisa, author; Koninklijke Academie van de Hogeschool Gent; MER Paper Kunsthalle (Ghent, Belgium)
Publisher: ARAMER
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9789491775192
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Painting and motion pictures; Art in motion pictures; Portraits in motion pictures
Description: "... The Dark Galleries deals with American (and some British) films of the 1940s and 1950s, in which a painted portrait plays an important part in the plot or the mise-en-scène. Particularly noir crime thrillers, gothic melodramas, and ghost stories feature painted portraits that seem to hold magical power over their beholders. In addition to an extensive introductory essay, this museum guide presents about one hundred entries on the artistic and cinematic aspects of noir and gothic painted portraits."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: "This book is part of a research project on cinematic representations of artworks at the School of Arts, University College, Ghent, Belgium."--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-165) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one.; title: Introduction: art and artists in the American cinema of the 1940s and 1950s -- -- Part two.; title: An illustrated survey of noir and gothic art, artists, museums, and collectors -- -- Part three.; title: Museum catalogue of painted portraits.; title: Gallery of dying portraits --; title: Gallery of patriarchs --; title: Gallery of matriarchs and female ancestors --; title: Gallery of ghosts --; title: Gallery of fatal portraits --; title: Gallery of modern portraits.