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Film Noir and the Arts of Lighting

Patrick Keating (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

266 Seiten

2024
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-1026-6 (ISBN)

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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 aside the symbolism? This book offers a new account of film noir lighting, grounded in a larger theory of Hollywood cinematography as emotionally engaging storytelling. Above all, noir lighting is dynamic, switching from darkness to brightness and back again as characters change, locations shift, and fates unfold. Richly illustrated, Film Noir and the Arts of Lighting features in-depth analyses of eleven classic movies: The Asphalt Jungle, Sorry, Wrong Number, Odds against Tomorrow, The Letter, I Wake Up Screaming, Phantom Lady, Strangers on a Train, Sweet Smell of Success, Gaslight, Secret beyond the Door, and Touch of Evil.

PATRICK KEATING is a professor in the Department of Communication at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He is the author of The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood and the editor of Cinematography (Rutgers University Press).

Note on the Text

1 Introduction

2 The Dramatic Arc

3 Lighting Characters

4 Genre, Adaptation, and the Art of Unfolding

5 Lighting Milieu

6 Subjectivity, Symbolism, and Depiction

7 Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.08.2024
Zusatzinfo	63 B-W images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-9788-1026-1 / 1978810261
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-1026-6 / 9781978810266
Zustand	Neuware