Art history for filmmakers : the art of visual storytelling / Gillian McIver.
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TextSeries: Required reading rangePublisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019Description: 256 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 27 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781501362309 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Art and motion pictures | Painting -- History | Art and Design | Art and DesignDDC classification: 700.9 Summary: Since cinema's earliest days, literary adaptation has provided the movies with stories; and so we use literary terms like metaphor, metonymy and synedoche to describe visual things. But there is another way of looking at film, and that is through its relationship with the visual arts - mainly painting, the oldest of the art forms. 'Art History for Filmmakers' is an inspiring guide to how images from art can be used by filmmakers to establish period detail, and to teach composition, colour theory and lighting. The book looks at the key moments in the development of the Western painting, and how these became part of the Western visual culture from which cinema emerges, before exploring how paintings can be representative of different genres, such as horror, sex, violence, realism and fantasy, and how the images in these paintings connect with cinema.
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Originally published: London: Fairchild Books, 2016.
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Since cinema's earliest days, literary adaptation has provided the movies with stories; and so we use literary terms like metaphor, metonymy and synedoche to describe visual things. But there is another way of looking at film, and that is through its relationship with the visual arts - mainly painting, the oldest of the art forms. 'Art History for Filmmakers' is an inspiring guide to how images from art can be used by filmmakers to establish period detail, and to teach composition, colour theory and lighting. The book looks at the key moments in the development of the Western painting, and how these became part of the Western visual culture from which cinema emerges, before exploring how paintings can be representative of different genres, such as horror, sex, violence, realism and fantasy, and how the images in these paintings connect with cinema.
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