{"product_id":"transnational-cinematography-studies-9781498524278","title":"Transnational Cinematography Studies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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\u003cbr\u003eTransnational 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\u003cbr\u003eI'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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface 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","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040682770775,"sku":"9781498524278","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498524278.jpg?v=1750947502","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/transnational-cinematography-studies-9781498524278","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}