{"title":"[III. Introduction]","authors":"A. Violi","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":220682,"journal":{"name":"Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132020270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monuments of the Heart:","authors":"S. Damiani","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.27","url":null,"abstract":"According to the basic assumption that monuments are the aesthetic\u0000 mediators of memory—primarily the memory of the dead—the essay\u0000 aims to discuss the imaginary of the body as a sepulchral monument.\u0000 Taking as a starting point the legend of Artemisia of Caria, who celebrated\u0000 the memory of her dead husband/brother Mausolus both by having the\u0000 Mausoleum of Halicarnassus erected and by drinking Mausolus’ ashes so\u0000 as to turn herself into his living sarcophagus, the analytic focus is on the\u0000 replication of similar symbolic practices in contemporary culture, namely\u0000 in the field of organ transplantation. The transplanted patient receives\u0000 and preserves within his/her body the organ of the deceased donor, thus\u0000 becoming, even if unintentionally, the donor’s memorial monument.","PeriodicalId":220682,"journal":{"name":"Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133347500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theatre and Memory:","authors":"Greta Perletti","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":220682,"journal":{"name":"Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115988412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Ephemeral Cathedral:","authors":"V. Hediger","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":220682,"journal":{"name":"Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128576350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Well-Tempered Memorial:","authors":"A. Pinotti","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.26","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":220682,"journal":{"name":"Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127540005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Celluloid and the Death Mask : Bazin’s and Eisenstein’s Image Anthropology","authors":"A. Somaini","doi":"10.5117/9789089648525_chii05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789089648525_chii05","url":null,"abstract":"Funereal images are characterised by a peculiar dialectic tension between\u0000 presence and absence that plays a crucial role in understanding the anthropological\u0000 roots of image-making tout court. Building on Bazin and\u0000 Eisenstein’s remarks about the longue durée of funerary practices aimed at\u0000 preserving the visual appearances of dead bodies after their disappearance\u0000 due to physical decay, this essay offers a genealogy of techniques that from\u0000 casting, moulding and embalming eventually leads to the recording of\u0000 images onto celluloid film. The death mask, in particular, with its capacity\u0000 of capturing and fixing through the imprint process the traits of a face\u0000 that was once alive, seems to respond to that same need to arrest time and\u0000 ‘secure phenomena’ to which photography and cinema would later respond.","PeriodicalId":220682,"journal":{"name":"Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122111537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ephemeral Bodies: The ‘Candles’ of Urs Fischer","authors":"C. Baldacci","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.14","url":null,"abstract":"At the 54th Venice Biennale, Urs Fischer presented the most monumental\u0000 of his ‘candles’: a 1:1 scale replica of Giambologna’s The Rape of the Sabine\u0000 Women. Together with two other wax sculptures—a copy of his favourite\u0000 studio chair (a self-portrait) and the life-size statue of Rudolf Stingel (an\u0000 alter ego)—it formed quite an eclectic sculptural group. But this ‘untitled’\u0000 installation was far from being an exercise in monumentality. At the\u0000 Biennale opening, the sculptures were lit through candle wicks hidden\u0000 in their bodies and started to melt. Though copies replaced the ‘originals’,\u0000 Untitled resulted in a mass of ruins. More than a memento mori, it showed\u0000 the passage of time focusing on the afterlife of images.","PeriodicalId":220682,"journal":{"name":"Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122154302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bodies’ Strange Stories : Les Revenants and The Leftovers","authors":"Luca Malavasi","doi":"10.5117/9789089648525_chiii05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789089648525_chiii05","url":null,"abstract":"Focusing on two TV series, the French Les Revenants and the American\u0000 The Leftovers, the essay aims to analyse the cultural and techno-scientific\u0000 paradigm of animation of the inanimate and its opposite, which may\u0000 range from reification and ghostly disembodiment to a redefinition of\u0000 what the human is. Driven by an apocalyptic imaginary, both television\u0000 projects revolve around the failure of the natural order to distinguish and\u0000 separate life from death; therefore, they revolve as well around the crisis\u0000 of the psychological, social and ritual processes through which life, by\u0000 working through the thought of death, allows the subject to make sense\u0000 of time and reality—that is, to perceive and understand the finitude of\u0000 things and the mortality of bodies.","PeriodicalId":220682,"journal":{"name":"Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134638382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Learning from Stone","authors":"A. Violi, B. Grespi, A. Pinotti, Pietro Conte","doi":"10.1017/9789048527069.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048527069.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":220682,"journal":{"name":"Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127438350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Jack Torrance As a Fossil Form","authors":"Barbara Le Maître","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12sdvn4.18","url":null,"abstract":"The essay starts with the photograph that reveals the mystery of Stanley\u0000 Kubrick’s The Shining (1980) to introduce the notion of a fossil as a mineral\u0000 compound that continues to evolve into something biologically distinct from\u0000 the cadaver that provided its origin. The fossil represents a form of survival\u0000 in stone, a material within which the dead body can continue to decay\u0000 and so, in a certain sense, to live on. Considered to be a state of suspended\u0000 animation, the fossil holds a particular attraction for the cinema, as we see\u0000 in the character of Jack Torrance, a paradoxical figure who takes on a clear\u0000 identity if we recognise him as a fossil—and more precisely a ‘living fossil’.","PeriodicalId":220682,"journal":{"name":"Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129334976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}