The Men With The Movie Camera

Author : Philip Cavendish
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781782380788

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The Men with the Movie Camera by Philip Cavendish Pdf

Unlike previous studies of the Soviet avant-garde during the silent era, which have regarded the works of the period as manifestations of directorial vision, this study emphasizes the collaborative principle at the heart of avant-garde filmmaking units and draws attention to the crucial role of camera operators in creating the visual style of the films, especially on the poetics of composition and lighting. In the Soviet Union of the 1920s and early 1930s, owing to the fetishization of the camera as an embodiment of modern technology, the cameraman was an iconic figure whose creative contribution was encouraged and respected. Drawing upon the film literature of the period, Philip Cavendish describes the culture of the camera operator, charts developments in the art of camera operation, and studies the mechanics of key director-cameraman partnerships. He offers detailed analysis of Soviet avant-garde films and draws comparisons between the visual aesthetics of these works and the modernist experiments taking place in the other spheres of the visual arts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:184807615

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MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dziga Vertov
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520056302

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Kino-Eye by Dziga Vertov Pdf

Dziga Vertov was one of the greatest innovators of Soviet cinema. The radical complexity of his work—in both sound and silent forms—has given it a central place within contemporary theoretical inquiry. Vertov's writings, collected here, range from calculated manifestos setting forth his heroic vision of film's potential to dark ruminations on the inactivity forced upon him by the bureaucratization of the Soviet state.

Author : Richard Koszarski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Cinematographers
ISBN : NWU:35556022416135

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The Men with the Movie Cameras by Richard Koszarski Pdf

Author : Graham Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Chelovek s kinoapparatom (Motion picture)
ISBN : 0755699068

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The Man with the Movie Camera by Graham Roberts Pdf

Author : John MacKay
Publisher : Film and Media Studies
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1618117343

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Dziga Vertov by John MacKay Pdf

For 60 years, the Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov, creator of the famed Man with a Movie Camera (1929), has been recognized as a founding figure of documentary, avant-garde, and political-propaganda film. This book addresses Vertov's formative years in prerevolutionary and Soviet Russia, alongside his interests in music, poetry and technology.

Author : Karen Latchana Kenney
Publisher : Lerner Publications (Tm)
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Motion picture cameras
ISBN : 9781512483239

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Who Invented the Movie Camera? by Karen Latchana Kenney Pdf

Learn the exciting story of how Thomas Edison and William Friese-Greene went head-to-head to make the first working movie camera!

Author : Richard Barsam
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1992-11-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253207061

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Nonfiction Film by Richard Barsam Pdf

"Richard Barsam has given us as comprehensive a study of the origins and development of the nonfiction mode in motion pictures as we are ever likely to have in one volume. He draws on all the major written sources and many which are little known, and he shares with us many eloquent descriptions of the films themselves, giving us a valuable textbook." --Richard Dyer MacCann "... superb work... " --Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television

Author : Jeremy Hicks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857712240

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Dziga Vertov by Jeremy Hicks Pdf

Pioneer of political documentary and inventor of cinema verite, Dziga Vertov has exerted a decisive influence on directors from Eisenstein to Godard. Yet his reputation long rested upon a lone masterpiece, 'Man with a Movie Camera'. Recently, however Vertov has begun to be recognised as the creator of a body of innovative and distinct films and, as Jeremy Hicks argues, documentary as we know it today is unthinkable without the rediscovery of Vertov. This, the first book in English to cover the whole of Vertov's career, reveals him to be an auteur, allowing readers to combine the familiar and less familiar aspects of his filmmaking and thinking in a cohesive narrative. Jeremy Hicks demonstrates how Vertov draws on Soviet journalistic models for his transformation of newsreel into the new form of documentary film. Through analyses of "Cine-Pravda No 21" (Leninist Cine-Pravda), "Cine-Eye", "Forward Soviet!", "A Sixth Part of the Earth", "The Eleventh Year", "Man with a Movie Camera", "Enthusiasm", "Three Songs of Lenin", and "Lullaby", he shows how Vertov's greatest works combine authentic documentary footage ingeniously for tremendous rhetorical effect. Today, with the energetic revival of interest in documentary film, Vertov's reflexive and overtly partisan films are of great relevance; but they need to be better known and understood. This is the purpose of "Dziga Vertov - Defining Documentary Film".

Author : Philip Steadman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0192803026

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Vermeer's Camera by Philip Steadman Pdf

Art historians have long speculated on how Vermeer achieved the uncanny mixture of detached precision, compositional repose, and perspective accuracy that have drawn many to describe his work as "photographic." Indeed, many wonder if Vermeer employed a camera obscura, a primitive form of camera, to enhance his realistic effects? In Vermeer's Camera, Philip Steadman traces the development of the camera obscura--first described by Leonaro da Vinci--weighs the arguments that scholars have made for and against Vermeer's use of the camera, and offers a fascinating examination of the paintings themselves and what they alone can tell us of Vermeer's technique. Vermeer left no record of his method and indeed we know almost nothing of the man nor of how he worked. But by a close and illuminating study of the paintings Steadman concludes that Vermeer did use the camera obscura and shows how the inherent defects in this primitive device enabled Vermeer to achieve some remarkable effects--the slight blurring of image, the absence of sharp lines, the peculiar illusion not of closeness but of distance in the domestic scenes. Steadman argues that the use of the camera also explains some previously unexplainable qualities of Vermeer's art, such as the absence of conventional drawing, the pattern of underpainting in areas of pure tone, the pervasive feeling of reticence that suffuses his canvases, and the almost magical sense that Vermeer is painting not objects but light itself. Drawing on a wealth of Vermeer research and displaying an extraordinary sensitivity to the subtleties of the work itself, Philip Steadman offers in Vermeer's Camera a fresh perspective on some of the most enchanting paintings ever created.

Author : Barry Keith Grant
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814339725

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Documenting the Documentary by Barry Keith Grant Pdf

Originally released in 1998, Documenting the Documentary responded to a scholarly landscape in which documentary film was largely understudied and undervalued aesthetically, and analyzed instead through issues of ethics, politics, and film technology. Editors Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski addressed this gap by presenting a useful survey of the artistic and persuasive aspects of documentary film from a range of critical viewpoints. This new edition of Documenting the Documentary adds five new essays on more recent films in addition to the text of the first edition. Thirty-one film and media scholars, many of them among the most important voices in the area of documentary film, cover the significant developments in the history of documentary filmmaking from Nanook of the North (1922), the first commercially released documentary feature, to contemporary independent film and video productions like Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man (2005) and the controversial Borat (2006). The works discussed also include representative examples of many important national and stylistic movements and various production contexts, from mainstream to avant-garde. In all, this volume offers a series of rich and revealing analyses of those "regimes of truth" that still fascinate filmgoers as much today as they did at the very beginnings of film history. As documentary film and visual media become increasingly important ways for audiences to process news and information, Documenting the Documentary continues to be a vital resource to understanding the genre. Students and teachers of film studies and fans of documentary film will appreciate this expanded classic volume.

Author : Sergei Eisenstein
Publisher : HMH
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780547539478

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Film Form by Sergei Eisenstein Pdf

A classic on the aesthetics of filmmaking from the pioneering Soviet director who made Battleship Potemkin. Though he completed only a half-dozen films, Sergei Eisenstein remains one of the great names in filmmaking, and is also renowned for his theory and analysis of the medium. Film Form collects twelve essays, written between 1928 and 1945, that demonstrate key points in the development of Eisenstein’s film theory and in particular his analysis of the sound-film medium. Edited, translated, and with an introduction by Jay Leyda, this volume allows modern-day film students and fans to gain insights from the man who produced classics such as Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible and created the renowned “Odessa Steps” sequence.

Author : Rachel O. Moore
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0822323885

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Savage Theory by Rachel O. Moore Pdf

An ambitious and original work which uses early film theory, anthropological insights, and avant--garde film to explore the relation of cinema to ritual healing.

Author : Dana Stevens
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501134203

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Camera Man by Dana Stevens Pdf

They were calling it the Twentieth Century -- "She is a little animal, surely" -- "He's my son, and I'll break his neck any way I want to" -- "The locomotive of juveniles" -- A little hell-raising Huck Finn -- The boy who couldn't be damaged -- "Make me laugh, Keaton" -- Speed mania in the kingdom of shadows -- Pancakes at Childs -- Comique -- Roscoe -- Brooms -- Mabel at the wheel -- Famous players in famous plays -- Home, made -- Rice, shoes, and real estate -- The shadow stage -- Battle-scarred risibilities -- One for you, one for me -- The "darkie shuffle" -- The collapsing façade -- Grief slipped in -- The road through the mountain -- Not a drinker, a drunk -- Old times -- The coming thing in entertainment -- Coda: Eleanor.

Author : Carl Rollyson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780595420612

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Documentary Film by Carl Rollyson Pdf

Documentary Film: Contexts and Criticism is designed to complement Rollyson's Documentary Film: A Primer. The films discussed in this volume include Zelig, the Lumiere brothers documentaries, Nanook of the North, The Man With a Movie Camera, Triumph of the Will, Olympia, The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, Why We Fight, Fires Were Started, and several Jill Craigie films, including an extended discussion of Two Hours From London, her controversial examination of the Balkan wars and the siege of Dubrovnik. What sets this text apart from other studies of documentary is that it includes a wide array of student comments on the films and reviews very much centered in discussions of the documentary tradition. In this same vein, Rollyson has included his essay, "Jill Craigie and the Documentary Tradition" exploring her relationship with John Grierson and other prominent documentary filmmakers. This dialogic text captures some of the actual give-and-take of the classroom and the range of opinion that even the best critics cannot convey. What should emerge from the reading of these comments are the different voices (mindsets) through which the films are viewed.