Front matter
LULTIRE
Figuring
7 the PASHE
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements 7 Introduction - Period Film and the Mannerist Moment 9 Fragments and Figures 11 An International Genre 15 Mannerism: The Possibilities of a Conservative Aesthetic 20 Chapter | - A Poetics of Figuration 27 The Belated Moment of Mannerism 27 Pastiche and the Reality Effect 33 From the Figurative to the Figural 39 Classical/Post-classical: Adaptation, Film Writing and the Technological Narrative 45 Credits Roll: The Figure as Threshold 56 Chapter 2 - Present in the Past: The House 65 Nostalgia Interrupted: The House and its Ghosts 65 Home and (Dis)Inheritance: Howarps END 70 The Collector and the House-Museum: THE GOLDEN Bow and End of Period 81 Melodrama and the Descriptive Mode: THE AGE OF INNOCENCE 89 Fidelity to the Past and the Melancholic Imagination: Woman as Ghost 95 THE House or MirTH or, Time and Woman 102 Chapter 3 - Time and the Image: The Tableau 111 Still Images/Moving Narratives: The Tableau Effect 111 The Shot-Tableau: From Pregnant Moment to Hieroglyph 115 The Portrait as Fetish 121 Portraits and Tableaux in the Feminist Imagination 125 Deframings: THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY 130 Double-Framing the Mythologies of the Female Artist: ARTEMISIA 140 Vision, Blindness and the Displacement of Trauma 146 THE GOVERNESS or, the Woman in Camera 154 Chapter 4 - The Scene of Writing: The Letter 163 Textual Erotics: Reading the Letter as Object and Figure 163
The Letter that Arrives Too Late: Figuration and Melodramatic Temporality 166
Letters and Spatial Displacement
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