Author : John Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 31,51 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1411607406
A broad introduction to CinemaScope and other widescreen movies, including full credits for 85 sample films, a description of various anamorphic processes, plus background information for movie fans.
Author : Ariel Rogers
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 11,13 MB
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0231535783
Cinematic Appeals follows the effect of technological innovation on the cinema experience, specifically the introduction of widescreen and stereoscopic 3D systems in the 1950s, the rise of digital cinema in the 1990s, and the transition to digital 3D since 2005. Widescreen cinema promised to draw the viewer into the world of the screen, enabling larger-than-life close-ups of already larger-than-life actors. This technology fostered the illusion of physically entering a film, enhancing the semblance of realism. Alternatively, the digital era was less concerned with the viewer's physical response and more with information flow, awe, and the reevaluation of spatiality and embodiment. This study ultimately shows how cinematic technology and the human experience shape and respond to each other over time.
Author : Paul Read
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 19,13 MB
Release : 2000-08-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 008051619X
This is the first book to bring together the work of a modern motion picture film laboratory together with the specialist techniques for preservation and restoration of archival film.The books data has its origins in a training programme called FILM which was written by members of the Gamma Group with funding from the EU fund Force. The committee comprised senior film archivists and technicians in charge of film conservation departments or working film laboratories within national film archives, together with technicians from commercial laboratories which specialise in archival film conservation and who do not work for national and local archives. The final group consisted of many of the most experienced individuals in their fields.Restoration of Motion Picture Film is an extremely informative, well-researched book which is an unmissable addition to the bookshelves of conservators, archivists and curators worldwide. Film history and film conservation students will also find it of great interest and use.* Only book in English on this subject* Prepared by leading specialists in their field* Includes coverage of digital technology
Author : Charles Tepperman
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 35,91 MB
Release : 2014-12-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520279867
From the very beginning of cinema, there have been amateur filmmakers at work. It wasn’t until Kodak introduced 16mm film in 1923, however, that amateur moviemaking became a widespread reality, and by the 1950s, over a million Americans had amateur movie cameras. In Amateur Cinema, Charles Tepperman explores the meaning of the “amateur” in film history and modern visual culture. In the middle decades of the twentieth century—the period that saw Hollywood’s rise to dominance in the global film industry—a movement of amateur filmmakers created an alternative world of small-scale movie production and circulation. Organized amateur moviemaking was a significant phenomenon that gave rise to dozens of clubs and thousands of participants producing experimental, nonfiction, or short-subject narratives. Rooted in an examination of surviving films, this book traces the contexts of “advanced” amateur cinema and articulates the broad aesthetic and stylistic tendencies of amateur films.
Author : Gregg Redner
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 23,94 MB
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 1841504378
The analysis of film music is emerging as one of the fastest-growing areas of interest in film studies. Yet scholarship in this up-and-coming field has been beset by the lack of a common language and methodology between film and music theory. Drawing on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, film studies scholar Gregg Redner provides a much-needed analysis of the problem which then forms the basis of his exploration of the function of the film score and its relation to film's other elements. Not just a groundbreaking examination of persistent difficulties in this new area of study, Deleuze and Film Music also offers a solution—a methodological bridge—that will take film music analysis to a new level.
Author : Scott Macdonald
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1439905304
The history of Cinema 16--the nation's first film society--through letters, programs, interviews, and the society's own documents.
Author : David Quinlan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780389204084
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Author : Susan Hayward
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 31,61 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 9780415161176
This excellent book analyzes key French films in their cultural context and explores their relation to literary texts and popular ideas of national history.
Author : R. Burt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 50,87 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0230614566
Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media contextualizes historical films in an innovative way - not only relating them to the history of cinema, but also to premodern and early modern media. This philological approach to the (pre)history of cinema engages both old media such as scrolls, illuminated manuscripts, the Bayeux Tapestry, and new digital media such as DVDs, HD DVDs, and computers. Burt examines the uncanny repetitions that now fragment films into successively released alternate cuts and extras (footnote tracks, audiocommentaries, and documentaries) that (re)structure and reframe historical films, thereby presenting new challenges to historicist criticism and film theory. With a double focus on recursive narrative frames and the cinematic paratexts of medieval and early modern film, this book calls our attention to strange, sometimes opaque phenomena in film and literary theory that have previously gone unrecognized.
Author : Lenny Lipton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 795 pages
File Size : 21,78 MB
Release : 2021-04-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 1071609513
The first of its kind, this book traces the evolution of motion picture technology in its entirety. Beginning with Huygens' magic lantern and ending in the current electronic era, it explains cinema’s scientific foundations and the development of parallel enabling technologies alongside the lives of the innovators. Product development issues, business and marketplace factors, the interaction of aesthetic and technological demands, and the patent system all play key roles in the tale. The topics are covered sequentially, with detailed discussion of the transition from the magic lantern to Edison’s invention of the 35mm camera, the development of the celluloid cinema, and the transition from celluloid to digital. Unique and essential reading from a lifetime innovator in the field of cinema technology, this engaging and well-illustrated book will appeal to anyone interested in the history and science of cinema, from movie buffs to academics and members of the motion picture industry.
