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Book SynopsisThis collection explores how the role of cinematography will evolve in an ever-increasing digitized industry in a transnational context. Contributors aim to bridge conversations about critical film studies and technical film practices while proposing that cinema has always been at the foreground of transnational culture.
Trade ReviewThis book demonstrates with its specific analysis about several aspects of the art of cinematography . . . that the cinematographer can no longer be defined as a ‘skilled technician’ with some ‘aesthetic ambitions’ but that the cinematographer is fully and completely an artist. . . .This book can be and it will be another step forward in this decisive clarification. -- Luciano Tovoli, AIC ASC IMAGO
Transnational Cinematography Studies leads you on a voyage of discovery of the craft. It looks at the philosophy, the practicality, and the past influences forming the present and the future. It studies the creative processes that make cinema the most compelling art form. -- Remi Adefarasin, OBE, BSC
I'm very happy to finally see a book which takes into account the actual problems we all are confronted with and has a clear look not only toward aesthetic consequences but also to the impact drastically concerning our working methods on the set. . . . Can't wait to have this book in my hands! -- Christian Berger, cinematographer
Table of ContentsPreface by Roberto Schaefer Introduction by Daisuke Miyao Chapter 1: Leviathan, by Lindsay Coleman Chapter 2: Five Functions of Camera Movement in Narrative Cinema, by Jakob Isak Nielsen Chapter 3: À Travers: The Cinematography of Depth in Japan, by Daisuke Miyao Chapter 4: The Eyes of the World: Christopher Doyle, Anthony Dod Mantle, Roger Deakins and the Emergence of a Transnational Cinematic Language, by Evan Lieberman Chapter 5: What Does it Mean to Say that Cinematography is Like Painting with Light?, by Patrick Keating Chapter 6: Hou Hsiao-hsien and Mark Lee Ping-bing: A Taiwanese Creative Team, by Peter H. Rist Chapter 7: The Making of Hong Kong: The Texture of Cinema, by Carlos Rojas Chapter 8: The Transnational Gothic Visions of Luis Buñuel and Gabriel Figueroa, by Ceri Higgins Chapter 9: Gravity and the ‘Lighting Designer’ Controversy: Cinematographers, Special Visual Effects Artists and the Rhetoric of Digital Convergence, by Julie Turnock About the Editors and Contributors
