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| Genre/Form: | History |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Document |
| Document Type: | Book, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gillian McIver |
| ISBN: | 9781474246200 1474246206 |
| OCLC Number: | 976441804 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (256 pages) |
| Contents: | Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- What is art history and how does it relate to cinema history?; How is art history useful for filmmakers?; Painting as a record of what the past looked like in the imagination of artists; Painting and the use of visual language; A brief linear (traditional) history of art; Towards an "alternative" history of art -- Chapter 1: Visual Culture and Storytelling -- Narrative and storytelling in art; Narrative in painting and cinema; Case study: William Hogarth's The Rake's Progress, and Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream; Exercise; Discussion questions -- Chapter 2: Creating the Visual -- Perspective, Colour and Lighting -- A brief history of perspective; Colour theory and colour psychology; How to use light; Case Study: Rembrandt, and Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover and Nightwatching; Exercise; Discussion questions -- Chapter 3: Realism in Visual Art. Realism; What is representation?; Art after photography: Modern conceptions of realism in art; Case study: Johannes Vermeer, and Peter Webber's The Girl with the Pearl Earring (DoP Eduardo Serra); Exercise; Discussion questions -- Chapter 4: Beyond Realism -- Fantasy worlds in cinema and art; Oneiric: The world of dreams; Surrealism; Going beyond the real; Case study: Jack Cardiff (DoP) and A Matter of Life and Death (dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger); Exercise; Discussion questions -- Chapter 5: Sex and Violence -- Sex; Violence; Case study: Caravaggio, and Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver ; Exercise; Discussion questions -- Chapter 6: Horror -- From dream to nightmare; Monsters; Case study: Francisco Goya, and Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth and Pacific Rim; Exercise; Discussion questions -- Chapter 7: Landscape -- What is landscape painting?; The Western; Case study: Albert Beirstadt, Andrew Wyeth, and Ed Harris's Appaloosa. Exercise; Discussion questions. Chapter 8: History and Heroism -- History painting: Victory, virtue, and the hero; Case study: Quentin Tarantino's Diango Unchained and Gainsborough's Blue Boy; Exercise; Discussion questions -- Chapter 9: Modern Movements -- Expressionism; Minimalism; Beyond Western culture; Case study: Katsushika Hokusai and Disney; Cinema as contemporary art; Exercise; Discussion questions -- Chapter 10: Conclusion -- Using art history in film-making -- Film-making roles and art; Case study: Terrence Malick, Nestor Almendros and Andrew Wyeth (Days of Heaven); Case study: Conrad Hall, Sam Mendes and Edward Hopper (Road to Perdition); Case study: Wally Pfister, Christopher Nolan and MC Escher (Inception). |
| Responsibility: | Gillian McIver. |
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- Art and motion pictures.
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- Film, TV & radio.
- Film: styles & genres.
- Films, cinema.
- Media studies.
- Film production: technical & background skills.
- ART -- Film & Video.
- PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Direction & Production.
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- ART -- Mixed Media.
- Painting.
