Film and the Decorative Image
by
Rosalind Galt, , Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
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...