{"product_id":"9781350501683","title":"Cinema of Decadence","description":"\u003ch1\u003eCinema of Decadence\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDavid Weir\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerforming Arts \/ Film \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFrom the shadowy glamour of early European cinema to the bold visions of twenty-first-century filmmakers, The \u003ci\u003eCinema of Decadence\u003c\/i\u003e traces a rich history of film shaped by excess, artifice and desire. Beginning with the decadent imagination of Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde and Frank Wedekind, David Weir explores how their ideas influenced silent-era filmmakers such as Erich von Stroheim, G. W. Pabst and Ernst Lubitsch, from the figure of the Vamp, immortalised by Theda Bara, to the fatal allure of Pabst's \u003ci\u003ePandora's Box\u003c\/i\u003e (1929). The book moves through Hollywood's golden age, shaped by émigré artists such as Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich, and into European art cinema, with chapters on Fellini, Pasolini, Buñuel and Visconti. Weir follows decadence into the underground films of 1960s and 1970s New York, the distinctive aesthetics of Derek Jarman and Peter Greenaway, and contemporary reimaginings including Damien Chazelle's \u003ci\u003eBabylon\u003c\/i\u003e (2022) and Yorgos Lanthimos's \u003ci\u003ePoor Things\u003c\/i\u003e (2023). The result is a wide-ranging history of cinema's fascination with beauty, corruption and transgressive pleasure.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eDavid Weir is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature at the Cooper Union, New York, USA. He is the author of books including \u003ci\u003eDecadence and Literature \u003c\/i\u003e(edited with Jane Desmarais, 2019); \u003ci\u003eDecadence: A Very Short Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e, (2018), and “\u003ci\u003eUlysses” Explained: How Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare Inform Joyce's Modernist Vision \u003c\/i\u003e(2015), as well as a study of \u003ci\u003eTrouble in Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e (2021) and \u003ci\u003eThe Leopard\u003c\/i\u003e (2024) in the BFI Film Classics series.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e07 January 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350501683\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e296\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51331330736268,"sku":"9781350501683","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_74ae50be-6dca-427d-a069-d56e571a5c82.jpg?v=1783595927","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781350501683","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}