Techniques of the Moving Image – serie
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17 produkter
Moving Color
Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism
Häftad, 2012
527 kr
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Color was used in film well before The Wizard of Oz. Thomas Edison, for example, projected two-colored films at his first public screening in New York City on April 23, 1896. These first colors of early cinema were not photographic; they were applied manually through a variety of laborious …
Death of the Moguls
The End of Classical Hollywood
Häftad, 2012
455 kr
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Death of the Moguls is a detailed assessment of the last days of the “rulers of film.” Wheeler Winston Dixon examines the careers of such moguls as Harry Cohn at Columbia, Louis B. Mayer at MGM, Jack L. Warner at Warner Brothers, Adolph Zukor at Paramount, and Herbert J. Yates at Republic in the …
Eyes Have It
Cinema and the Reality Effect
Häftad, 2013
498 kr
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The Eyes Have It explores those rarified screen moments when viewers are confronted by sights that seem at once impossible and present, artificial and stimulating, illusory and definitive. Beginning with a penetrating study of five cornfield sequences-including The Wizard of Oz, Arizona Dream, and …
All for Beauty
Makeup and Hairdressing in Hollywood's Studio Era
Häftad, 2022
483 kr
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Ever wonder why so many stars and featured players, male or female, in movies of Hollywood’s “Golden Age” look like they just stepped out of a beauty parlor even if the story places them in a jungle, a hospital bed, or the ancient past? All for Beauty examines how and why makeup and hairdressing …
Shot on Location
Postwar American Cinema and the Exploration of Real Place
Häftad, 2016
483 kr
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In the early days of filmmaking, before many of Hollywood’s elaborate sets and soundstages had been built, it was common for movies to be shot on location. Decades later, Hollywood filmmakers rediscovered the practice of using real locations and documentary footage in their narrative features. Why …
Shot on Location
Postwar American Cinema and the Exploration of Real Place
Inbunden, 2016
1849 kr
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In the early days of filmmaking, before many of Hollywood’s elaborate sets and soundstages had been built, it was common for movies to be shot on location. Decades later, Hollywood filmmakers rediscovered the practice of using real locations and documentary footage in their narrative features. Why …
Designing Sound
Audiovisual Aesthetics in 1970s American Cinema
Av Jay Beck
Häftad, 2016
438 kr
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The late 1960s and 1970s are widely recognized as a golden age for American film, as directors like Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Martin Scorsese expanded the Hollywood model with aesthetically innovative works. As this groundbreaking new study reveals, those filmmakers were blessed with …
Hidden in Plain Sight
An Archaeology of Magic and the Cinema
Inbunden, 2015
1737 kr
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What does it mean to describe cinematic effects as “movie magic,” to compare filmmakers to magicians, or to say that the cinema is all a “trick”? The heyday of stage illusionism was over a century ago, so why do such performances still serve as a key reference point for understanding filmmaking, …
Making Believe
Screen Performance and Special Effects in Popular Cinema
Av Lisa Bode
Häftad, 2017
441 kr
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In the past twenty years, we have seen the rise of digital effects cinema in which the human performer is entangled with animation, collaged with other performers, or inserted into perilous or fantastic situations and scenery. Making Believe sheds new light on these developments by historicizing …
Making Believe
Screen Performance and Special Effects in Popular Cinema
Av Lisa Bode
Inbunden, 2017
1742 kr
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In the past twenty years, we have seen the rise of digital effects cinema in which the human performer is entangled with animation, collaged with other performers, or inserted into perilous or fantastic situations and scenery. Making Believe sheds new light on these developments by historicizing …
Zoom
Drama at the Touch of a Lever
Av Nick Hall
Häftad, 2018
427 kr
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From the queasy zooms in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo to the avant-garde mystery of Michael Snow's Wavelength, from the excitement of televised baseball to the drama of the political convention, the zoom shot is instantly recognizable and highly controversial. In The Zoom, Nick Hall traces the …
Film Noir and the Arts of Lighting
Häftad, 2024
440 kr
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More than any other set of films from the classical era, the Hollywood film noir is known for its lighting: the cast shadows, the blinking street signs, the eyes sparkling in the darkness. Each effect is rich in symbolism, evoking a world of danger and doppelgangers. But what happens if we set …
Film Noir and the Arts of Lighting
Inbunden, 2024
1567 kr
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More than any other set of films from the classical era, the Hollywood film noir is known for its lighting: the cast shadows, the blinking street signs, the eyes sparkling in the darkness. Each effect is rich in symbolism, evoking a world of danger and doppelgangers. But what happens if we set …
Playful Frames
Styles of Widescreen Cinema
Av Steven Rybin
Häftad, 2023
470 kr
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A widescreen frame in cinema beckons the eye to playfully, creatively roam. Such technology also gives inventive filmmakers room to disrupt and redirect audience expectations, surprising viewers through the use of a wider, more expansive screen. Playful Frames: Styles of Widescreen Cinema studies …
Playful Frames
Styles of Widescreen Cinema
Av Steven Rybin
Inbunden, 2023
1746 kr
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A widescreen frame in cinema beckons the eye to playfully, creatively roam. Such technology also gives inventive filmmakers room to disrupt and redirect audience expectations, surprising viewers through the use of a wider, more expansive screen. Playful Frames: Styles of Widescreen Cinema studies …
Over and Over
Performance, Time, and Resonance in Serial Television Drama
Häftad, 2026
601 kr
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How does serial drama earn, keep, and reward our attention for so long—over episodes, seasons, months, and years? While we know that characters are the focus of story and viewer interest in television fiction, scholars have for decades overlooked the way those characters are performed on-screen and …
All for Beauty
Makeup and Hairdressing in Hollywood's Studio Era
Inbunden, 2022
1798 kr
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Ever wonder why so many stars and featured players, male or female, in movies of Hollywood’s “Golden Age” look like they just stepped out of a beauty parlor even if the story places them in a jungle, a hospital bed, or the ancient past? All for Beauty examines how and why makeup and hairdressing …
