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Title: Film Style and Technology: History and Analysis
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Publisher: Starword; 3rd edition edition (December 16, 2009)
Pages: 453

Film Style and Technology: History and Analysis by Barry Salt



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Film Style and Technology book. The first and only history of motion picture style  . Barry Salt's method straddles the OCD line and there is no way I could ever perform his extremely minute formal analysis. With that said, this is flawed text in a number of respects. Most obviously, Salt's absurd assertions regarding anything resembling critical theory cast doubt on his motives from the beginning (are we to seriously believe that Althusser and Lacan recanted their entire philosophies on their deathbed?). This is a really useful text for specific references to film technologies

Cinema's Conversion To Sound: Technology And Film Style In France And The . History as rhetoric: style, narrative, and persuasion. Report "Film Style and Technology: History and Analysis".

He teaches filmmaking at the London Film School. There is far less emphasis on the famous people involved in film making and more emphasis on the tools and techniques they developed and used. The collection of information of even the oldest cameras, lenses, lights and film stocks is incredible. Lighting techniques are clearly shown with example frames from films - we use the shadows to trace back to the light sources. In fact the silent era alone fills more than half the book because surprising number of modern techniques were developed before films even had sound.

The relation of film style to film technology. New methods for the formal analysis of films. A practical approach to film theory. The application of all this to the analysis and evaluation of the films of Max Ophuls. A complete rewrite of the first twenty-five years of film history. Film Style and Technology: History and Analysis - Barry Salt. Related Archive Books. Archive Books related to " Film Style and Technology: History and Analysis - Barry Salt": 2012-01-05Film Style and Technology: History and Analysis - Barry Salt. 2011-12-09Film Style and Technology: History and Analysis - Barry Salt. Library descriptions. No library descriptions found.

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FILM STYLE AND TECHNOLOGY: HISTORY AND ANALYSIS by Barry Salt, Starword, 3 Minford Gardens, London W14 0AN, England, 1983: paper, $ 1. 0, 408 pages, lllustrations. in film studies that this major work had to be brought out at the author’s own expense

The relation of film style to film technology. film style and technology. com User, July 27, 2008. very interesting alternative to more traditional film theory. The best movie book ever. com User, November 17, 2002. If you're looking for just the facts and no . this is the book for you. 0. Report. refreshing alternative to theoretical film study. com User, January 18, 1998

Film Style and Technology is a history of film style and its relationship to film technology. It also includes a theory of film analysis and demonstrates this theory using the films of Max Ophuls.
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Natety
I got the book very quickly and it was actually in better condition than I expected! Thanks!
Nuliax
For those who are interested in the evolution of technology in motion picture, this is the right book. Complete and essential.
Ariurin
Do you ever look at old movies and wonder how they were shot back then compared to how they're shot now? This book will take you on a decade-by-decade journey on how film technology and techniques developed through cleverness, insight and occasional desperation (i.e. early color systems!) by the people who made them.

Barry Salt researched magazine articles and manufacturer literature to chronicle how motion picture technology evolved through the decades while watching the films created by this new technology to see how they changed. There is far less emphasis on the famous people involved in film making and more emphasis on the tools and techniques they developed and used. The collection of information of even the oldest cameras, lenses, lights and film stocks is incredible. Lighting techniques are clearly shown with example frames from films -- we use the shadows to trace back to the light sources. Nothing is too trivial for Salt to tell us about if he feels it left a historical impression.

That information alone would have made a useful text, but Salt also chronicles the evolution of acting techniques, story development, camera movement, editing, and nearly everything else that could affect a film. Even continuity, now an essential part of film making, gets a section when it finally appears as a sign of good workmanship! There are few names attributed to these developments (no, D.W. Griffith did not invent them all) but are described more as trends in the industry as film makers watched other films and discovered what was possible with this new popular media.

Salt's opinions on films may offend some. If you are a fan of Expressionism, you'll be angered at his amusing description of it as a strange and pointless artistic movement. If you're interested in newer movies, you'll find the sections on modern film making too short. Salt has little good to say about modern films and he feels that directors other than Robert Altman are generally trend-following hacks. In fact the silent era alone fills more than half the book because surprising number of modern techniques were developed before films even had sound.
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