Editor’s Introduction (Temenuga Trifonova)
Part I Cinema’s Vision of Art: Aspirational, Satiric, Philosophical
1. Art, Truth, Representation: Lois Weber’s Dumb Girl of Portici (Katherine Manthorne)
2. Avant-Garde and Kitsch: Modern Art and Money on Screen, 1963–1964 (Susan Felleman)
3. Cinema as Philosophy of Art (Temenuga Trifonova)
Part II The Aura of Art in (the Age of) Film
4. Ineffability? The Several Vermeers (Brigitte Peucker)
5. The Joker at the Museum in Tim Burton’s Batman: Artistic Vandalism in Hollywood (Pierre-Antoine Pellerin)
6. Chaos ex machina: The Art of Jean Tinguely and the Documentary Image (Des O’Rawe)
7. China’s Van Goghs: Documentary Production, International Taste, and Artistic Labor (A. T. McKenna)
Part III Affective Historiography: Negotiating the Past through Screening Art
8. A World Made of Art (Gillian McIver)
9. Art and History in Woman in Gold (2015), The Monuments Men (2014), and Francofonia (2015) (Christine Sprengler)
10. Examining Public Art in Parks and Recreation’s Pawnee, Indiana (Annie Dell’Aria)
Part IV The Figure of the Artist: Between Mad Genius and Entrepreneur of the Self
11. Homicidal and Suicidal Artist Figures in Film (Bruce A. Barber)
12. Blood Lust: Realism, Violent Inspiration, and the Artist in Horror Cinema (Kate Robertson)
13. Picturing Picasso : Revisiting Paul Haesaerts’s Visite à Picasso (1950) (Steven Jacobs and Joséphine Vandekerckhove)
14. This Is the End of High Entertainment: Tiny Furniture and This Is the End (Kelly Lloyd)
15. Screening Performance: Curating the Artist Persona (Susan Flynn)
16. Peter Greenaway’s Artist-Entrepreneurs (Marco de Waard)
Bibliography
Index