Abstract | Keywords | Export | Availability | Bookmark

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"The image that appears on the movie screen is the direct and tangible result of the joint efforts of the director and the cinematographer. A Hidden History of Film Style is the first study to focus on the collaborations between directors and cinematographers, a partnership that has played a crucial role in American cinema since the early years of the silent era. Christopher Beach argues that an understanding of the complex director-cinematographer collaboration offers an important model that challenges the pervasive conventional concept of director as auteur. Drawing upon oral histories, early industry trade journals, and other primary materials, Beach examines key innovations like deep focus, color, and digital cinematography, and in doing so produces an exceptionally clear history of the craft. Through analysis of several key collaborations in American cinema from the silent era to the late twentieth century--such as those of D. W. Griffith and Billy Bitzer, William Wyler and Gregg Toland, and Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Burks--this pivotal book underlines the importance of cinematographers to both the development of cinematic technique and the expression of visual style in film"--Provided by publisher.

Film --- United States --- Motion picture producers and directors --- Cinematographers --- Motion pictures --- Cinematography --- Production and direction --- Special effects. --- Special effects (Cinematography) --- Trick cinematography --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Cameramen, Lighting --- Directors of photography (Cinematographers) --- Lighting cameramen --- Photographers --- Special effects --- History and criticism --- 20th century american culture. --- 20th century film history. --- alfred hitchcock. --- american cinema. --- artists. --- auteur theory. --- billy bitzer. --- cinema and film. --- cinema. --- cinematographers. --- cinematography. --- collaboration. --- color. --- digital cinematography. --- directors. --- dw griffith. --- entertainment industry. --- film studies. --- film. --- filmmaking. --- gregg toland. --- history. --- motion picture photography. --- movie theory. --- oral histories. --- partnership. --- performing arts. --- retrospective. --- robert banks. --- silent era of film. --- trade journals. --- visual style of film. --- william wyler. --- United States of America