Art History, Popular Culture and the Cinema
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Copyright: 2018
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Art History, Popular Culture and the Cinema offers a lavishly illustrated survey of how various major art historical and popular culture movements were reflected in popular cinema over the past century. It is designed specifically for university students and a general public interested to understand such things as the artistic influences on Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers, the art movements that contributed to the "look" of the Beatles' films and the arguments about the future that created Fritz Lang's 1925 masterpiece Metropolis.
CHAPTER 1 From Ancient Greek Culture to Vampires
CHAPTER 2 A Quick Trip From the Renaissance to the Rococo CHAPTER 3 From the Rococo to Budweiser Beer
CHAPTER 4 From the Pre-Raphaelites to Loreena McKennitt
CHAPTER 5 From the Camera Obscura to the First Movies
CHAPTER 6 Georges Meliés and The Man in the Moon
CHAPTER 7 From the “Other” Paris to MTV
CHAPTER 8 From Max Reinhardt’s Berlin Kammerspiele to Rob Zombie
CHAPTER 9 From the Kaiser to “Occupy Wall Street”
CHAPTER 10 Building the Metropolis of the Futureat
CHAPTER 11 From Germany to Hollywood
CHAPTER 12 American Vaudeville
CHAPTER 13 Women from the Gay Nineties to Art Deco (1890–1930)
CHAPTER 14 Dealing with the Great American Depression (1929–1939)
CHAPTER 15 The Popularity of Dance
CHAPTER 16 The Master of Suspense
CHAPTER 17 Duck and Cover – America in the 1950s
CHAPTER 18 Symbolism, Dada and the Road to Surrealism
CHAPTER 19 The Psychedelic Generation and The Beatles
Dr. David Soren is Regents Professor of Classics with the University of Arizona and Director of the Orvieto Institute in Umbria. He holds a B.A. in Greek & Roman Studies from Dartmouth, and an M.A. in Fine Arts and Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from Harvard University. His specialties include Roman Archaeology, and the making of documentaries. He has done extensive field work in Cyprus, Portugal, Tunisia and Italy, is widely published, and has received numerous honors and awards for his work (see his listing on Wikipedia).
Regents Professor Soren was honored with the 2005 Excellence in International Service Award.
Professor Soren founded and continues to direct the Orvieto Study Abroad Program in Italy, now the University's largest study abroad program.