2 options
Hollywood lighting from the silent era to film noir / Patrick Keating.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keating, Patrick, 1970-
- Series:
- Film and culture.
- Film and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cinematography--Lighting.
- Cinematography.
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--History.
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (315 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, 2010.
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2010]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Mechanics or artists?
- From the portrait to the close-up
- The drama of light
- Organizing the image
- Inventing the observer
- Conventions and functions
- The art of balance
- The promises and problems of technicolor
- The flow of the river
- Film noir and the limits of classicism.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed November 2, 2023)
- ISBN:
- 9786613628749
- 9781280598913
- 1280598913
- 9780231520201
- 0231520204
- OCLC:
- 787844837
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.