Lucy Fischer
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Art Nouveau thrived from the late 1890's through the First World War. The international design movement reveled in curvilinear forms and both playful and macabre visions and had a deep impact on cinematic art direction, costuming, gender representation, genre, and theme. Though historians have long dismissed Art Nouveau as a decadentstatic cultural mode, its tremendous afterlife in cinema proves otherwise. In Cinema by Design, Lucy Fischer traces...
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“Cinemagritte: René Magritte within the Frame of Film History, Theory, and Practice” investigates the dynamic relationship between the Surrealist modernist artist René Magritte (1898—1967) and the cinema-a topic largely ignored in the annals of film and art criticism. Magritte once said that he used cinema as "a trampoline for the imagination," but here author Lucy Fischer reverses that process by using Magritte's work as a stimulus for an...