Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-x

Acknowledgements

pp xi-xii

Introduction: The Marble Camera

pp 1-26

PART I

pp 27-28

1 - The Sculptor's Dream: Living Statues in Early Cinema

pp 29-45

2 - The Mystery … The Blood … The Age of Gold: Sculpture in Surrealist and Surreal Cinema

pp 46-64

3 - Carving Cameras on Thorvaldsen and Rodin: Mid-Twentieth- Century Documentaries on Sculpture

pp 65-83

4 - Anatomy of an Ovidian Cinema: Mysteries of the Wax Museum

pp 84-100

5 - The Night of the Human Body: Statues and Fantasy in Postwar American Cinema

pp 101-117

6 - From Pompeii to Marienbad: Classical Sculptures in Postwar European Modernist Cinema

pp 118-136

7 - Of Swords, Sandals, and Statues: The Myth of the Living Statue

pp 137-155

8 - Coda: Returning the Favor (A Short History of Film Becoming Sculpture)

pp 156-168

PART II

pp 169-170

Sculpture Gallery: 150 Statues from European and American Cinema

pp 171-250

Bibliography

pp 251-262

About the Authors

pp 263-264

Index

pp 265-276