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Black & White Cinema: A Short History
Professor Wheeler Winston Dixon
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Description for Black & White Cinema: A Short History
Paperback. Telling for the first time, the short story of the cinema of shadows and light. Num Pages: 256 pages, 41 bw integrated. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 434.
Black & white film, the cinema of shadows and light, is a filmgoer's pleasure and a film student's surprised delight. The greatest of films are black & white, from Chaplin and Keaton, through the masterpieces of Film Noir, up to the black & white rarities of modern cinema, from Raging Bull to The Artist. Featuring 40 well-chosen illustrations, this is the first full account, critique and history of the black & white film, which dominated the movies internationally over seven decades. It reveals the art and craft of filming in black & white, going behind the scenes ... Read more
Black & white film, the cinema of shadows and light, is a filmgoer's pleasure and a film student's surprised delight. The greatest of films are black & white, from Chaplin and Keaton, through the masterpieces of Film Noir, up to the black & white rarities of modern cinema, from Raging Bull to The Artist. Featuring 40 well-chosen illustrations, this is the first full account, critique and history of the black & white film, which dominated the movies internationally over seven decades. It reveals the art and craft of filming in black & white, going behind the scenes ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784534523
SKU
V9781784534523
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About Professor Wheeler Winston Dixon
Formerly a filmmaker, Wheeler Winston Dixon is the James Ryan Professor of Film Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. His books include Cinema at the Margins, Death of the Moguls: The end of Classical Hollywood and, co-authored with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, A Short History of Film (I.B. Tauris, 2008).
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