Dynamic Frame Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood

Patrick Keating offers an innovative history of the aesthetics of the camera that examines how camera movement shaped the classical Hollywood style. In careful readings of dozens of films, he explores how major figures like F. W. Murnau, Orson Welles, and Alfred Hitchcock used camera movement to enrich their stories and deepen their themes.

About the author

Patrick Keating is associate professor of communication at Trinity University, where he teaches courses in film studies and video production. He is the author of Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir (Columbia, 2010).

Summary

Patrick Keating offers an innovative history of the aesthetics of the camera that examines how camera movement shaped the classical Hollywood style. In careful readings of dozens of films, he explores how major figures like F. W. Murnau, Orson Welles, and Alfred Hitchcock used camera movement to enrich their stories and deepen their themes.

Additional text

Keating, unlike many movie theorists, is just as well versed in film technology as he is in film technique, and one of the strengths of his book is that it is able to zoom in on specific filmmaking tools – dollies, deep-focus photography, CinemaScope – to show how they shaped cinematic storytelling.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick (Assistant Professor Keating, Patrick Keating, Keating Patrick
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.03.2019
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Guides > Hobby, home > Photography, filmmaking, video filmmaking
• EAN: 9780231190503
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19050-3
• Pages: 368
• Series: Film and Culture Series; Film Culture; Film and Culture Series; Film and Culture
• Subjects: USA, 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Cinematography, television camerawork, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film production: technical & background skills, Filmmaking and production: technical and background skills