Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: The Marble Camera 1
6. Part I
7. CHAPTER 1. The Sculptor’s Dream: Living Statues in Early Cinema 29
8. CHAPTER 2. The Mystery ... The Blood ... The Age of Gold: Sculpture in Surrealist and Surreal Cinema 46
9. CHAPTER 3. Carving Cameras on Thorvaldsen and Rodin: Mid-Twentieth-Century Documentaries on Sculpture 65
10. CHAPTER 4. Anatomy of an Ovidian Cinema: Mysteries of the Wax Museum 84
11. CHAPTER 5. The Night of the Human Body: Statues and Fantasy in Postwar American Cinema 101
12. CHAPTER 6. From Pompeii to Marienbad: Classical Sculptures in Postwar European Modernist Cinema 118
13. CHAPTER 7. Of Swords, Sandals, and Statues: The Myth of the Living Statue 137
14. CHAPTER 8. Coda: Returning the Favor (A Short History of Film Becoming Sculpture) 156
15. Part II
16. Sculpture Gallery: 150 Statues from European and American Cinema 171
17. Bibliography 251
18. About the Authors 263
19. Index 265