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(cid:2) INEM A BY DESIGN Lucy Fischer Art Nouveau, Modernism, & Film History Cinema by Design N FILM AND CULTURE SERIES film and culture A series of Columbia University Press edited by john belton What Made Pistachio Nuts? Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudevi lle Aesthetic henry jenkins Showstoppers: Busby Berkeley and the Tradition of Spectacle martin rubin Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II thomas doherty Laughing Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror and Comedy william paul Laughing Hysterically: American Screen Comedy of the 1950s ed sikov Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Con temporary Chinese Cinema rey chow The Cinema of Max Ophuls: Magisterial Vision and the Figure of W oman susan m. white Black W omen as Cultural Readers jacqueline bobo Picturing Japa neseness: Monumental Style, National Identity, Japa nese Film darrell william davis Attack of the Leading Ladies: Gender, Sexuality, and Spectatorship in Classic Horror Cinema rhona j. berenstein This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age gaylyn studlar Sexual Politics and Narrative Film: Hollywood and Beyond robin wood The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popul ar Film M usic jeff smith Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popul ar Culture michael anderegg Pre- Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930–1934 thomas doherty Sound Technology and the American Cinema: Perception, Repres ent a tion, Modernity james lastra Melodrama and Modernity: Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts ben singer Series list continues on page 267 Cinema by Design ART NOUVEAU, MODERNISM, AND FILM HISTORY By Lucy Fischer Columbia University Press New York, NY Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester, West Sussex cup . columbia . edu Copyright © 2017 Columbia University Press All rights reserved Cataloging-i n- Publication Data for Cinema by Design is on ﬁ le at the Library of Congress under LCCN 2016050676. Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-f ree paper. Printed in the United States of Amer i ca c 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 p 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Cover design: Lisa Hamm Cover image: © Photofest To my husband Mark and my sister Madeleine who accompanied me on many Art Nouveau pilgrimages around the world and made t hose experiences richer, happier, and more meaningful. B If ﬁ lm must equal the other arts, it is by seeking the same degree of beauty. — Claude Chabrol, The Taste for Beauty, trans. Carol Volk (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 73 Contents List of Illustrations xi Acknowl edgments xv Introduction 1 1 Art Nouveau and the Age of Attractions 39 2 Art Nouveau and American Film of the 1920s: Prestige, Class, Fantasy, and the Exotic 71 3 Architecture and the City: Barcelona, Gaudí, and the Cinematic Imaginary 114 4 Art Nouveau, Chambers of Horror, and “The Jew in the Text” 146 5 Art Nouveau, Patrimony, and the Art World 175 Epilogue: The 1960s and the Art Nouveau Revival 203 Notes 219 Index 249