"BODY IN FILMS" . . "CINEMATOGRAPHY" . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Pretty film and the decorative image" . "Pretty film and the decorative image"@en . . . . . . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . . "Livre électronique (Descripteur de forme)" . . . "Film culture often rejects visually rich images, valuing simplicity, austerity, or even ugliness as more provocative, political, and truly cinematic. Although cinema challenges traditional ideas of art, this opposition to the decorative continues a long-standing aesthetic antipathy to feminine cosmetics, Oriental effeminacy, and primitive ornament. Inheriting this patriarchal and colonial perspective along with the preference for fine over decorative art, filmmakers, critics, and theorists tend to denigrate cinema's colorful, picturesque, and richly patterned visions. Condemning th."@en . "Pretty : film and the decorative image" . . . "Film 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. Condemning 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-scene, 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 Moulin Rouge!, 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. -- Book Description." . . . . "Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme)" . . . . . . . "Kino tematy, motywy." . . "PERFORMING ARTS Reference." . . . . "SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA" . . "GENDER AND THE CINEMA" . . "Motion pictures Aesthetics." . . "Motion pictures Aesthetics" . "beauté cinéma." . . "cinéma ornement." . . "Cinematografo Estetica." . . "PERFORMING ARTS Film & Video General." . . "cinéma esthétique." . . "Cinéma Esthétique." . "Cinéma." . . "Kino estetyka." . . "AESTHETICS" . . "Schönheit." . . "Piękno kobiety (estetyka) w kinie." . . "Beau (esthétique) Au cinéma." . . "Esthétique cinématographique." . . "HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS/UK" . . "Filmästhetik." . .