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Art history for filmmakers

Paperback • 2019 • English

Art history for filmmakers: the art of visual storytelling

By McIver, Gillian

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About the book

Since cinema's earliest days, literary adaptation has provided the movies with stories; and so we use literary terms like metaphor, metonymy and synedoche to describe visual things. But there is another way of looking at film, and that is through its relationship with the visual arts - mainly painting, the oldest of the art forms. Art History for Filmmakers is an inspiring guide to how images from art can be used by filmmakers to establish period detail, and to teach composition, color theory an...Show more

Human figures depicted in art
Landscapes / seascapes
Films, cinema

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ISBN

9781501362309

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Published year

2019

Language

English

Original title

Art history for filmmakers

Format

Paperback

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