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The dynamic frame : camera movement in classical Hollywood / Patrick Keating New York; Chichester, UK: Columbia University Press,
Call No: 233.6(73) KEAAuthor: Keting, Patrick Edition: 2019Place: New York; Chichester, UKPublisher: Columbia University PressPhysDes: xi,350 pages : illustrated ; 24 cmSubject: BERKELEY, BUSBY ; BORDWELL, DAVID ; CAMERA ANGLES ; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941) ; CONVERGENCE ; FORD, JOHN ; HAWKS, HOWARD ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; LAST LAUGH, THE (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1924) ; MAMOULIAN, ROUBEN ; MURNAU, FRIEDRICH WILHEL ; PREMINGER, OTTO ; SUNRISE (US, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1927) ; TOLAND, GREGG ; VIDOR, KING ; WELLES, ORSON Summary: The camera’s movement in a film may seem straightforward or merely technical. Yet skillfully deployed pans, tilts, dollies, cranes, and zooms can express the emotions of a character, convey attitude and irony, or even challenge an ideological stance. In The Dynamic Frame, Patrick Keating offers an innovative history of the aesthetics of the camera that examines how camera movement shaped the classical Hollywood style.
In careful readings of dozens of films, including Sunrise, The Grapes of Wrath, Rear Window, Sunset Boulevard, and Touch of Evil, Keating explores how major figures such as F. W. Murnau, Orson Welles, and Alfred Hitchcock used camera movement to enrich their stories and deepen their themes. Balancing close analysis with a broader poetics of camera movement, Keating uses archival research to chronicle the technological breakthroughs and the changing division of labor that allowed for new possibilities, as well as the shifting political and cultural contexts that inspired filmmakers to use technology in new ways. An original history of film techniques and aesthetics, The Dynamic Frame shows that the classical Hollywood camera moves not to imitate the actions of an omniscient observer but rather to produce the interplay of concealment and revelation that is an essential part of the exchange between film and viewer. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780231190510Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. American Cinema, German Angles -- 2. Purposes and Parallels -- 3. Dynamism, Seriality, and Convergence -- 4. Constructing Scenes with the Camera -- 5. Between Subjective and Objective -- 6. An Art of Disclosures -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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A history of films / John Fell New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979.
Call No: 70 FELAuthor: Fell, John Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Holt, Rinehart and WinstonPubDate: 1979PhysDes: 588 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA ; PRODUCTION ; ALEXANDROV, GROGORIO ; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO ; BRECHT, BERTHOLD ; CAPRA, FRANK ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; DE SICA, VITTORIO ; COCTEAU, JEAN ; DEMILLE, CECIL B. ; DREYER, CARL TH. ; DISNEY, WALT ; DOVZENKO, ALEKSANDR ; EPSTEIN, JEAN ; FELLINI, FEDERICO ; FRANJU, GEORGES ; LANG, FRITZ ; MURNAU, FRIEDRICH WILHEL ; Pasolini, Pier Paolo ; PAUL, ROBERT ; PORTER, EDWIN S. ; PUDOVKIN, VSEVELOD ; RENOIR, JEAN ; RESNAIS, ALAIN ; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO ; THALBERG, IRVING ; TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS ; VERTOV, DZIGA ; VIGO, JEAN ; VISCONTI, LUCHINO ; ZAVATTINI, CESARE ; WELLES, ORSON ; WYLER, WILLIAM ; ZUKOR, ADOLPH ; L'AGE D'OR (FR, Luis Bruñell, 1930) ; L'ATALANTE (FR, Jean Vigo, 1930) ; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915) ; BALLET MÉCANIQUE (FR, Fernand Lèger && Dudley Murphy,1934) ; BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) ; CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, THE [CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI, DAS] (G, Robert Wiene, 1920) ; METROPOLIS (G, Fritz Lang, 1926) ; SANG D'UN POETE, LE (FR, Jean Cocteau, 1932) Notes: Bibliography: p.546-548
Includes indexISBN: 0030363160Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
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Looking past the screen : case studies in American film history and method / Edited by Jon Lewis and Eric Smoodin Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.
Call No: 71(73) LEWAuthor: Lewis, Jon (editor) ; Smoodin, Eric (editor) Source: USPlace: DurhamPublisher: Duke University PressPubDate: 2007PhysDes: x, 413 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: MOTION PICTURES - HISTORY ; USA ; FILM CULTURE ; FILM NOIR ; REALISM IN FILMS ; LUCAS, GEORGE ; SPIELBERG, STEVEN ; WEBER, LOIS ; MURNAU, FRIEDRICH WILHEL Summary: The book looks at Hollywood cinema from the beginnings to the 70s, and uses both the film itself, and primary sources of information - collections of personal letters, popular and trade journals, fan magazines, and studio publications to develop a method of historical research to enable one to examine the social, politiical phenomenon which begins with the screen but extends to all society.Notes: Bibliography: p. 381-396; Includes IndexISBN: 9780322338215Contents: The beginnings of American film study / Dana Polan -- The perfect money machine(s) : George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and auteurism in the new Hollywood / Jon Lewis -- Lois Weber and the celebrity of matronly respectability / Shelley Stamp -- Tempting fate : Clara Smith hamon, or The secretary as producer / Mark Lynn Anderson -- The crafting of a political icon : Lola Lola on paper / Andrea Slane -- Going Hollywood sooner or later : Chinese censorship and The bitter tea of General Yen / Eric Smoodin -- Plain brown wrapper : adult films for the home market, 1930-1969 / Eric Schaefer -- Ethnography and exhibition : the child audience, the Hays office, and Saturday matinees / Richard deCordova -- Dish night at the movies : exhibitor promotions and female audiences during the Great Depression / Kathy H. Fuller-Seeley -- "A treatise on decay" : liberal and leftist critics and their queer readings of Depression-era U.S. film / David M. Lugowski -- Murnau in America : chronicle of lost films (4 devils, City girl) / Janet Bergstrom -- The American origins of film noir : realism in urban art and The naked city / Sumiko Higashi.
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