What the truth hides
On specular allegories in the Golden Age of cinema
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Eviternare.vi11.14084Keywords:
Classic cinema, Hollywood, Iconography, MirrorAbstract
The mirror has been a recurring motif throughout the History of Art. Its iconography has been associated, moreover, with ambivalent, if not directly contradictory meanings, depending on the historical moment in which it was used by artists in their compositions. In the twentieth century, the art of cinematography enthusiastically picked up this tradition, turning it into an element that, used with subtlety, enriched the staging of many films. This work aims to outline an approach to the iconographic treatment that the mirror has had on the big screen, focusing its attention mainly on the period from the beginnings of sound cinema to the irruption of the cinematographic avant-garde in the late fifties.
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