Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir (Film and Culture Series)

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 handled the challenge. Once dismissed as crank-turning laborers, these early cinematographers became skillful professional artists by carefully balancing the competing demands of story, studio, and star. Enhanced by more than one hundred illustrations, this volume counters the notion that style took a backseat to storytelling in Hollywood film, proving that the lighting practices of the studio era were anything but neutral, uniform, and invisible. Cinematographers were masters of multifunctionality and negotiation, honing their craft to achieve not only realistic fantasy but also pictorial artistry.

Arts & Photography

Keating, Patrick

Photography & Video

Columbia University Press

Birth of a New Earth: The Radical Politics of Environmentalism (New Directions in Critical Theory, 85)

In response to unprecedented environmental degradation, activists and popular movements have risen up to fight the crisis of climate change and the ongoing devastation of the earth. The environmental movement has undeniably influenced even its adversaries, as the language of sustainability can be found in corporate mission statements, government policy, and national security agendas. However, the price of success has been compromise, prompting soul-searching and questioning of the politics of environmentalism. Is it a revolutionary movement that opposes the current system? Or is it reformist, changing the system by working within it? In Birth of a New Earth, Adrian Parr argues that this is a false choice, calling for a shift from an opposition between revolution and incremental change to a renewed collective imagination. Parr insists that environmental destruction is at its core a problem of democratization and decolonization. It requires reckoning with militarism, market fundamentalism, and global inequality and mobilizing an alternative political vision capable of freeing the collective imagination in order to replace an apocalyptic mindset frozen by the spectacle of violence. Birth of a New Earth locates the emancipatory work of environmental politics in solidarities that can bring together different constituencies, fusing opposing political strategies and paradigms by working both inside and outside the prevailing system. She discusses experiments in food sovereignty, collaborative natural-resource management, and public-interest design initiatives that test new models of economic democratization. Ultimately, Parr proclaims, environmental politics is the refusal to surrender life to the violence of global capitalism, corporate governance, and militarism. This defiance can serve as the source for the birth of a new earth.

The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood (Film and Culture Series)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

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.

Winner of the first ever Institute of Management Accountants Jim Bulloch Award for Innovations in Management Accounting Education, this modular series has generated interest from faculty in undergraduate and graduate accounting programs. This is an entirely modular based product offering short, individual chapters on traditional and innovative topics for managerial and cost accounting. These modules are complete with end of chapter material. Each module remains consistent according to a dual triangle strategic framework which is presented in the first module, Strategy and Management Accounting.

The Organizational Role of Management Accountants

Business & Money

Ansari, Shahid

Ansari, Shahid L.

Economics

McGraw/Hill/Irwin

<div> An essential work of twenty-first-century cinema, Alfonso Cuarón?s 2004 film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is an elegant exemplar of contemporary cinematic trends, including serial storytelling, the rise of the fantasy genre, digital filmmaking, and collaborative authorship. With craft, wonder, and wit, the film captures the most engaging elements of the novel while artfully translating its literary point of view into cinematic terms that expand on the world established in the book series and previous films. In this book, Patrick Keating examines how Cuarón and his collaborators employ cinematography, production design, music, performance, costume, dialogue, and more to create the richly textured world of Harry Potter?a world filtered principally through Harry?s perspective, characterized by gaps, uncertainties, and surprises. Rather than upholding the vision of a single auteur, Keating celebrates Cuarón?s direction as a collaborative achievement that resulted in a family blockbuster layered with thematic insights. </div>

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (21st Century Film Essentials)

University of Texas Press

Bluff Your Way in Doctoring (Bluffer's Guides)

Ravette Books

<div>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,&nbsp;Odds against Tomorrow,&nbsp;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.</div>

Film Noir and the Arts of Lighting (Techniques of the Moving Image)

Rutgers University Press

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Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir (Film and Culture Series)

The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood (Film and Culture Series)

The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood (Film and Culture Series)

The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood (Film and Culture Series)

The Organizational Role of Management Accountants

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (21st Century Film Essentials)

Bluff Your Way in Doctoring (Bluffer's Guides)

Film Noir and the Arts of Lighting (Techniques of the Moving Image)