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Reel a hollywood renaissance novel5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In the case of Van Gogh’s painting, we learn this not through a description of the pair of shoes, nor by a report on how to make shoes, but by looking at the shoes. In his famous interpretation of Vincent Van Gogh’s painting A Pair of Peasant’s Shoes (1886), Heidegger argues that shoes tell us all we need to know about the world of the person who walks in them. Offers insights into debates around stardom costume gender material objects and trauma objects and the history of cinema consumerism and advertising. ![]() Asks if, and how, film "uses" shoes differently from other art forms, and if so what this difference reveals about the medium, and about our current age of art.Reveals the political, cultural and economic power of film through its deployment of the iconography of shoes.Traces the relationship between one particular object (shoes) and film as a medium in order to reveal the significance of material things to cinema, thematically, formally and philosophically.Examines the enduring significance of shoes to the cinema through a variety of theoretical approaches ![]()
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