Steven Jacobs teaches film history and film theory at Ghent University and the University of Antwerp. Susan Felleman is Professor of Art History and Film and Media Studies at the University of South Carolina.Vito Adriaensens is a visiting scholar and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University s Film Department. Lisa Colpaert is a fashion designer and a film historian.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Marble Camera, Steven JacobsPART I: ESSAYS1. The Sculptor’s Dream: Living Statues in Early Cinema, Vito Adriaensens and Steven Jacobs2. The Mystery…The Blood…the Age of Gold: Sculpture in Surrealist and Surreal Cinema, Susan Felleman3. Carving Cameras on Thorvaldsen and Rodin: Mid-Twentieth-Century Documentaries on Sculpture, Steven Jacobs4. Mysteries of the Wax Museum: Anatomy of an Ovidian Cinema, Vito Adriaensens5. The Night of the Human Body: Statues and Fantasy in Post-War American Cinema, Susan Felleman6. From Pompei to Marienbad: Classical Sculpture in Post-War European Modernist Cinema, Steven Jacobs and Lisa Colpaert7. Of Swords, Sandals, and Statues: The Myth of the Living Statue from Hephaistos to the Silver Screen, Vito Adriaensens8. Coda: Returning the Favor (A Short History of Film Becoming Sculpture), Susan FellemanPART II: SCULPTURE GALLERYVito Adriaensens and Lisa Colpaert　BibliographyAbout the AuthorsIndex

[Screening Statues] guarantees the reader access to a real textbook on sculpture and film, appealing to art lovers and film fans alike. This is a book that has long been due in that it fills a major gap in the field of statuary in film.'

Steven Jacobs teaches film history and film theory at Ghent University and the University of Antwerp. Susan Felleman is Professor of Art History and Film and Media Studies at the University of South Carolina.Vito Adriaensens is a visiting scholar and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University s Film Department. Lisa Colpaert is a fashion designer and a film historian.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Marble Camera, Steven JacobsPART I: ESSAYS1. The Sculptor’s Dream: Living Statues in Early Cinema, Vito Adriaensens and Steven Jacobs2. The Mystery…The Blood…the Age of Gold: Sculpture in Surrealist and Surreal Cinema, Susan Felleman3. Carving Cameras on Thorvaldsen and Rodin: Mid-Twentieth-Century Documentaries on Sculpture, Steven Jacobs4. Mysteries of the Wax Museum: Anatomy of an Ovidian Cinema, Vito Adriaensens5. The Night of the Human Body: Statues and Fantasy in Post-War American Cinema, Susan Felleman6. From Pompei to Marienbad: Classical Sculpture in Post-War European Modernist Cinema, Steven Jacobs and Lisa Colpaert7. Of Swords, Sandals, and Statues: The Myth of the Living Statue from Hephaistos to the Silver Screen, Vito Adriaensens8. Coda: Returning the Favor (A Short History of Film Becoming Sculpture), Susan FellemanPART II: SCULPTURE GALLERYVito Adriaensens and Lisa Colpaert　BibliographyAbout the AuthorsIndex

[Screening Statues] guarantees the reader access to a real textbook on sculpture and film, appealing to art lovers and film fans alike. This is a book that has long been due in that it fills a major gap in the field of statuary in film.'

Steven Jacobs teaches film history and film theory at Ghent University and the University of Antwerp. Susan Felleman is Professor of Art History and Film and Media Studies at the University of South Carolina.Vito Adriaensens is a visiting scholar and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University s Film Department. Lisa Colpaert is a fashion designer and a film historian.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Marble Camera, Steven JacobsPART I: ESSAYS1. The Sculptor’s Dream: Living Statues in Early Cinema, Vito Adriaensens and Steven Jacobs2. The Mystery…The Blood…the Age of Gold: Sculpture in Surrealist and Surreal Cinema, Susan Felleman3. Carving Cameras on Thorvaldsen and Rodin: Mid-Twentieth-Century Documentaries on Sculpture, Steven Jacobs4. Mysteries of the Wax Museum: Anatomy of an Ovidian Cinema, Vito Adriaensens5. The Night of the Human Body: Statues and Fantasy in Post-War American Cinema, Susan Felleman6. From Pompei to Marienbad: Classical Sculpture in Post-War European Modernist Cinema, Steven Jacobs and Lisa Colpaert7. Of Swords, Sandals, and Statues: The Myth of the Living Statue from Hephaistos to the Silver Screen, Vito Adriaensens8. Coda: Returning the Favor (A Short History of Film Becoming Sculpture), Susan FellemanPART II: SCULPTURE GALLERYVito Adriaensens and Lisa Colpaert　BibliographyAbout the AuthorsIndex

[Screening Statues] guarantees the reader access to a real textbook on sculpture and film, appealing to art lovers and film fans alike. This is a book that has long been due in that it fills a major gap in the field of statuary in film.'