Cinebody Without Organs

Bloomington, IN/Chicago, IL.
Interwar avantgarde, French intellectual history, Italian cinema, new wave cinema, vernacular modernism, 20th century Europe, camp, identity politics, archives.
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archives-dada:

Hannah Höch, Dompteuse (Tamer), 1930, Photomontage with collage elements, 14 x 10 1/4 inches (Kunsthaus Zürich)

killedbydreck:

Disco a Giallo!

Summer reading list, part 1.

  • Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves: The Misfits and Icons of Postwar America by George Kouvaros
  • Becoming Visionary: Brian DePalma’s Cinematic Education of the Senses by Eyal Peretz
  • The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience by Jennifer M. Barker
  • Hitchcock’s Romantic Irony by Richard Allen
  • Perverse Desire and the Ambiguous Icon by Allen S. Weiss
  • Heidegger’s Crisis: Philosophy and Politics in Nazi Germany by Hans Sluga
  • Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television by Jeffrey Sconce

foxesinbreeches:

Illustration by Hans Bellmer for Georges Bataille’s Histoire de l’oeil (Story of the Eye), 1940s

televandalist:

Bath time!

televandalist:

Bath time!

midcenturymodernfreak:

The Chemosphere, designed by American architect John Lautner in 1960, is an innovative Modernist octagon house in Los Angeles, California. The house was included in a list of all time top 10 houses in Los Angeles in a Los Angeles Times survey of experts in 2008. The home is currently owned by Benedikt Taschen, of the German publishing house Taschen since 2000.

Source: marinachetner.com | openbuildings.com | wikipedia.org

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Piero Umiliani,
Il Corpo

Piero Umiliani - Free Life (ext.)

oldhollywood:

“The body of a rotund man floating along the Thames looked familiar, the face and the portly figure recognisable from the movies.

But nothing nasty had happened to Alfred Hitchcock. The East End-born son of a London greengrocer was merely exercising his macabre sense of humour and marketing skills.

The director was announcing his return home to make Frenzy, a typically gruesome thriller and the first film he’d made entirely in his home country for more than 20 years.

Floating a lifelike dummy of himself on the river was the type of gimmick, mischievous and macabre, that he loved. In a business where those in front of the cameras expect to be the stars, Hitchcock proved bigger than his movies.”

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kelllymac:

Lady Terminator [1989]

kelllymac:

Lady Terminator [1989]

strangewood:

Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. Adjani received Best Actress honors for her performances in Possession and Quartet.

strangewood:

Burt Lancaster and Claudia Cardinale promote their film The Leopard at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival. The film, directed by Luchino Visconti, won the Palme d’Or that year.