The Men With The Movie Camera : the Poetics of Visual Style in Soviet Avant-Garde Cinema of the 1920s.
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 came...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2013
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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 contri. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (354 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-324) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781782380788 1782380787 9781782380771 1782380779 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
