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6%OFFFrances Guerin - Culture of Light - 9780816642861 - V9780816642861
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Culture of Light

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Description for Culture of Light Paperback. Num Pages: 360 pages, 18ill. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
Cinema is a medium of light. And during Weimar Germany's advance to technological modernity, light - particularly the representational possibilities of electrical light - became the link between the cinema screen and the rapid changes that were transforming German life.In Frances Guerin's compelling history of German silent cinema of the 1920s, the innovative use of light is the pivot around which a new conception of a national cinema, and a national culture emerges. Guerin depicts a nocturnal Germany suffused with light - electric billboards, storefronts, police searchlights - and shows how this element of the mise-en-scene came to reflect both ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816642861
SKU
V9780816642861
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99-50

About Frances Guerin
Frances Guerin is a lecturer in film studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury.

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