The Optic Horror : The Intricate Pattern of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper and its Depiction in Film
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Alternativní jazyky
Jazyk výsledku
angličtina
Název v původním jazyce
The Optic Horror : The Intricate Pattern of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper and its Depiction in Film
Popis výsledku v původním jazyce
The paper focuses on the topic of the intricate pattern in the gothic horror genre. The core is CH. P. Gilman's story The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) and its film adaptations. Even though Gilman's book has received a considerable amount of scholarly attention, there have been only a few attempts at the visual analysis of the infamous wallpaper. The cinematic depictions of this wallpaper have been neglected so far. The intention is to analyze different ways in which the films try to approximate their designs of the wallpaper to the literary description (including the "hallucination" of the protagonist). While the text leaves certain aspects of the wallpaper to the imagination, the films cannot avoid the depiction of the "optic horror". With the aid of E. H. Gombrich's theory of the "elusive face" in decorative art, I am describing certain conditions that should be fulfilled to create a pattern that is not only (aesthetically) horrifying, but also lures our gaze into an unresting hunt for meaningful images. The employment of this kind of design is illustrated by the example of the films The Haunting (1963, R. Wise) and Through a Glass Darkly (1961, I. Bergman).
Název v anglickém jazyce
The Optic Horror : The Intricate Pattern of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper and its Depiction in Film
Popis výsledku anglicky
The paper focuses on the topic of the intricate pattern in the gothic horror genre. The core is CH. P. Gilman's story The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) and its film adaptations. Even though Gilman's book has received a considerable amount of scholarly attention, there have been only a few attempts at the visual analysis of the infamous wallpaper. The cinematic depictions of this wallpaper have been neglected so far. The intention is to analyze different ways in which the films try to approximate their designs of the wallpaper to the literary description (including the "hallucination" of the protagonist). While the text leaves certain aspects of the wallpaper to the imagination, the films cannot avoid the depiction of the "optic horror". With the aid of E. H. Gombrich's theory of the "elusive face" in decorative art, I am describing certain conditions that should be fulfilled to create a pattern that is not only (aesthetically) horrifying, but also lures our gaze into an unresting hunt for meaningful images. The employment of this kind of design is illustrated by the example of the films The Haunting (1963, R. Wise) and Through a Glass Darkly (1961, I. Bergman).
Klasifikace
Druh
O - Ostatní výsledky
CEP obor
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OECD FORD obor
60401 - Arts, Art history
Návaznosti výsledku
Projekt
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Návaznosti
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Ostatní
Rok uplatnění
2017
Kód důvěrnosti údajů
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů