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Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir
Patrick Keating
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Description for Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir
Paperback. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, 137 illlus. BIC Classification: APFX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 450. Series: Film and Culture Series. 312 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. BIC Classification: APFX. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 16. Weight: 426.
Lighting performs essential functions in Hollywood films, enhancing the glamour, clarifying the action, and intensifying the mood. Examining every facet of this understated art form, from the glowing backlights of the silent period to the shaded alleys of film noir, Patrick Keating affirms the role of Hollywood lighting as a distinct, compositional force. Closely analyzing Girl Shy (1924), Anna Karenina (1935), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), and T-Men (1947), along with other brilliant classics, Keating describes the unique problems posed by these films and the innovative ways cinematographers handled the challenge. Once dismissed as crank-turning laborers, these early cinematographers ... Read more
Lighting performs essential functions in Hollywood films, enhancing the glamour, clarifying the action, and intensifying the mood. Examining every facet of this understated art form, from the glowing backlights of the silent period to the shaded alleys of film noir, Patrick Keating affirms the role of Hollywood lighting as a distinct, compositional force. Closely analyzing Girl Shy (1924), Anna Karenina (1935), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), and T-Men (1947), along with other brilliant classics, Keating describes the unique problems posed by these films and the innovative ways cinematographers handled the challenge. Once dismissed as crank-turning laborers, these early cinematographers ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
Film and Culture Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231149037
SKU
V9780231149037
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About Patrick Keating
Patrick Keating is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Trinity University, where he teaches courses in film and media studies.
Reviews for Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir
Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir should be considered essential reading by all film students and aspiring directors. Midwest Book Review This readable book provides welcome profiles of eminent cinematographers... and valuable research on the American Society of Cinematographers... Highly recommended. Choice This book taught my students and me to watch films in a new way.
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