Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts

Alessandra Violi is Full Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Bergamo. Barbara Grespi is Associate Professor at the University of Bergamo where she teaches Cinema and Visual culture. Andrea Pinotti is Professor in Aesthetics in the Department of Philosophy "Piero Martinetti", State University of Milan. Pietro Conte is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Aesthetics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

INTRODUCTION
Alessandra Violi, Barbara Grespi, Andrea Pinotti, Pietro Conte, Learning from Stone
I. STATUE: THE IMAGINARY OF UNCERTAIN PETRIFICATION
1. Greta Perletti, Theatre and Memory: The Body-as-Statue in Early Modern Culture
2. Silvia Romani, Translated Bodies: A 'Cartographic' Approach
3. Barbara Grespi, Pantomime in Stone: Performance of the Pose and Animal Camouflage
4. Michele Bertolini, Animated Statues and Petrified Bodies: A Journey Inside Fantasy Cinema
5. Vinzenz Hediger, The Ephemeral Cathedral: Bodies of Stone and Configurations of Film
II. MATTER: SIZE, HARDNESS, DURATION
1. Michele Cometa, Bodies That Matter: Miniaturization and the Origin(s) of 'Art'
2. Elio Grazioli, Brancusi's 'Sculpture for the Blind'
3. Cristina Baldacci, Ephemeral Bodies: The 'Candles' of Urs Fischer
4. Pietro Conte, Cinema, Phenomenology, and Hyperrealism
5. Antonio Somaini, The Celluloid and the Death Mask: Bazin's and Eisenstein's Image Anthropology
III. CORPSE: FOSSILS, AUTOICONS, REVENANTS
1. Luisella Farinotti, Funeral Elegy: Post Mortem Figures and Redeemed Bodies, in Images
2. Barbara Le Maître, On Jack Torrance as a Fossil Form
3. Anna Luppi, Technical Images and the Transformation of Matter in Eighteenth-Century Tuscany
4. Alessandra Violi, Glass, Mixed Media, Stone: the Bodily Stuffs of Suspended Animation
5. Luca Malavasi, Bodies' Strange Stories: Les Revenants and The Leftovers
IV. MONUMENT: EMBODYING AND GRAFTING
1. Filippo Fimiani, The Impassibly Fleshly, the Statue of the Impossible
2. Elisabeth Bronfen, Frozen into Allegory: Cleopatra's Cultural Survival
3. Federica Villa, The Orphan Image
4. Andrea Pinotti, The Well-Tempered Memorial: Abstraction, Anthropomorphism, Embodiment
5. Sara Damiani, Monuments of the Heart: Living Tombs and Organic Memories in Contemporary Culture
Index