Cindy Shermans Office Killer

Author : Dahlia Schweitzer
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781841507071
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cindy Sherman's Office Killer written by Dahlia Schweitzer and published by Intellect (UK). This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the twentieth century's most significant artists, Cindy Sherman has quietly uprooted conventional understandings of portraiture and art, questioning everything from identity to feminism. Critics around the world have taken Sherman's photographs and extensively examined what lies underneath. However, little critical ink has been spilled on Sherman's only film, Office Killer, a piece that plays a significant role both in Sherman's body of work and in American art in the late twentieth century. Dahlia Schweitzer breaks the silence with her trenchant analysis of Office Killer and explores the film on a variety of levels, combating head-on the art world's reluctance to discuss the movie and arguing instead that it is only through a close reading of the film that we can begin to appreciate the messages underlying all of Sherman's work. The first book on this neglected piece of an esteemed artist's oeuvre, Cindy Sherman's "Office Killer" rescues the film from critical oblivion and situates it next to the artist's other iconic works.

Author : Augusta Mai Gailey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reexamining Cindy Sherman's 1997 Film written by Augusta Mai Gailey and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1997, the film Office Killer was released to the public. Cindy Sherman, of photographic fame, had directed the film as her first foray into the world of cinema. The film was ultimately received negatively publicly and critically with many critics criticizing that the film had none of the artistic direction that Sherman's photographs displayed. This paper reexamines the film in the context of the critical theory written by Laura Mulvey and Mary Ann Doane about her photographic series Untitled Film Stills, Disasters, and Fairy Tales, reconsidering its merits in line with Sherman's larger oeuvre.

Author : Cindy Sherman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cindy Sherman written by Cindy Sherman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2/11/97 - 1/2/98; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 28/2/98 - 31/5/98.

Author : Philipp Kaiser
Publisher : Prestel
ISBN 13 : 9783791355566
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cindy Sherman written by Philipp Kaiser and published by Prestel. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first career survey to explore the full range of the artist's [Cindy Sherman's] photographic series through the critical lens of cinema. Featuring more than 130 illustrations, ... it explores the artist's use of cinematic artifice across almost 40 years of work." --back cover.

Author : Ronald Gregg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190877995
Total Pages : 865 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema written by Ronald Gregg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Queer media is not one thing but an ensemble of at least four moving variables: history, gender and sexuality, geography, and medium. While many scholars would pinpoint the early 1990s as marking the emergence of a cinematic movement (dubbed by B. Ruby Rich, the "new queer cinema") in the United States, films and television programs that clearly spoke to LGBTQ themes and viewers existed at many different historical moments and in many different forms. Cross-dressing, same-sex attraction, comedic drag performance: at some points, for example in 1950s television, these were not undercurrents but very prominent aspects of mainstream cultural production. Addressing "history" not as dots on a progressive spectrum but as a uneven story of struggle, writers on queer cinema in this volume stress how that queer cinema did not appear miraculously at one moment but describes currents throughout the century-long history of the medium. Likewise, while queer is an Anglophone term that has been widely circulated, it by no means names a unified or complete spectrum of sexuality and gender identity, just as the LGBTQ+ alphabet soup struggles to contain the distinctive histories, politics, and cultural productions of trans artists and genderqueer practices. Across the globe, media makers have interrogated identity and desire through the medium of cinema through rubrics that sometimes vigorously oppose the Western embrace of the pejorative term queer, instead foregrounding indigenous genders and sexualities, or those forged in the global South, or those seeking alternative epistemologies. Finally, while "cinema" is in our title, many scholars in this collection see that term as an encompassing one, referencing cinema and media in a convergent digital environment. The lively and dynamic conversations introduced here aspire to sustain further reflection as "queer cinema" shifts into new configurations"--

Author : Eva Respini
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 13 : 0870708120
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cindy Sherman written by Eva Respini and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2012 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This retrospective exhibiton presents over one hundred and eighty works covering a thirty five year period.

Author : Dahlia Schweitzer
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813593182
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Going Viral written by Dahlia Schweitzer and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outbreak narratives have proliferated for the past quarter century, and now they have reached epidemic proportions. From 28 Days Later to 24 to The Walking Dead, movies, TV shows, and books are filled with zombie viruses, bioengineered plagues, and disease-ravaged bands of survivors. Even news reports indulge in thrilling scenarios about potential global pandemics like SARS and Ebola. Why have outbreak narratives infected our public discourse, and how have they affected the way Americans view the world? In Going Viral, Dahlia Schweitzer probes outbreak narratives in film, television, and a variety of other media, putting them in conversation with rhetoric from government authorities and news organizations that have capitalized on public fears about our changing world. She identifies three distinct types of outbreak narrative, each corresponding to a specific contemporary anxiety: globalization, terrorism, and the end of civilization. Schweitzer considers how these fears, stoked by both fictional outbreak narratives and official sources, have influenced the ways Americans relate to their neighbors, perceive foreigners, and regard social institutions. Looking at everything from I Am Legend to The X Files to World War Z, this book examines how outbreak narratives both excite and horrify us, conjuring our nightmares while letting us indulge in fantasies about fighting infected Others. Going Viral thus raises provocative questions about the cost of public paranoia and the power brokers who profit from it. Supplemental Study Materials for "Going Viral": https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/going-viral-dahlia-schweitzer Dahlia Schweitzer- Going Viral: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xF0V7WL9ow

Author : Dahlia Schweitzer
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978807759
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunted Homes written by Dahlia Schweitzer and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunted Homes is a short but groundbreaking study of homes in horror film and television. While haunted houses can be fun and thrilling, Hollywood horror tends to focus on haunted homes, places where the suburban American dream of safety and comfort has turned into a nightmare. From classic movies like The Old Dark House to contemporary works like Hereditary and the Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House, Dahlia Schweitzer explores why haunted homes have become a prime stage for dramatizing anxieties about family, gender, race, and economic collapse. She traces how the haunted home film was intertwined with the expansion of American suburbia, but also explores works like The Witch and The Babadook, which transport the genre to different times and places. This lively and readable study reveals how and why an increasing number of films imagine that home is where the horror is. Watch a video of the author discussing the topic Haunted Homes (https://youtu.be/_irTEfvtZfQ).

Author : Howard Singerman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520267222
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art History, After Sherrie Levine written by Howard Singerman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this in-depth examination of artist Sherrie Levine, Howard Singerman surveys a broad range of sources to assess an artist whose work was understood from the outset to oppose the values of the art world in the 1980s but who, by the end of the decade, was exhibiting in some of the most successful commercial galleries in New York.

Author : Éric Rohmer
Publisher : Viking Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Moral Tales written by Éric Rohmer and published by Viking Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A succession of jousts between fragile men and the women who tempt them"--Container.