5. The Joker at the Museum in Tim Burton’s Batman: Artistic Vandalism in Hollywood

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Editor’s Introduction 7
4. Part I Cinema’s Vision of Art: Aspirational, Satiric, Philosophical
5. 1. Art, Truth, Representation: Lois Weber’s Dumb Girl of Portici 31
6. 2. Avant-Garde and Kitsch: Modern Art and Money on Screen, 1963–1964 47
7. 3. Cinema as Philosophy of Art 65
8. Part II The Aura of Art in (the Age of) Film
9. 4. Ineffability? The Several Vermeers 85
10. 5. The Joker at the Museum in Tim Burton’s Batman: Artistic Vandalism in Hollywood 101
11. 6. Chaos ex machina: The Art of Jean Tinguely and the Documentary Image 115
12. 7. China’s Van Goghs: Documentary Production, International Taste, and Artistic Labor 133
13. Part III Affective Historiography: Negotiating the Past through Screening Art
14. 8. A World Made of Art 149
15. 9. Art and History in Woman in Gold (2015), The Monuments Men (2014), and Francofonia (2015) 165
16. 10. Examining Public Art in Parks and Recreation’s Pawnee, Indiana 181
17. Part IV The Figure of the Artist: Between Mad Genius and Entrepreneur of the Self
18. 11. Homicidal and Suicidal Artist Figures in Film 203
19. 12. Blood Lust: Realism, Violent Inspiration, and the Artist in Horror Cinema 219
20. 13. Picturing Picasso : Revisiting Paul Haesaerts’s Visite à Picasso (1950) 235
21. 14. This Is the End of High Entertainment : Tiny Furniture and This Is the End 253
22. 15. Screening Performance: Curating the Artist Persona 269
23. 16. Peter Greenaway’s Artist-Entrepreneurs 287
24. Bibliography 305
25. Index 327