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Techniques of the Moving Image Series

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Volumes in the Techniques of the Moving Image series explore the relationship between what we see onscreen and the technical achievements undertaken in filmmaking to make this possible. Books explore some defined aspect of cinema—work from a particular era, work in a particular genre, work by a particular filmmaker or team, work from a particular s…
Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism
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4.00 · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2012 · 5 editions
Color was used in film well before The Wizard of O…

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    Death of the Moguls: The End of Classical Hollywood
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    3.86     · 7 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2012 · 7 editions
    Death of the Moguls is a detailed assessment of th…

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    The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · published 2013 · 6 editions
    The Eyes Have It explores those rarified screen mo…

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    Hidden in Plain Sight: An Archaeology of Magic and the Cinema
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    3.67     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2015 · 5 editions
    What does it mean to describe cinematic effects as…

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    Shot on Location: Postwar American Cinema and the Exploration of Real Place
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · published 2016 · 4 editions
    In the early days of filmmaking, before many of Ho…

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    Designing Sound: Audiovisual Aesthetics in 1970s American Cinema
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    4.00     · 4 Ratings · published 2016 · 7 editions
    The late 1960s and 1970s are widely recognized as …

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    Making Believe: Screen Performance and Special Effects in Popular Cinema
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · 4 editions
    In the past twenty years, we have seen the rise of…

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    The Zoom: Drama at the Touch of a Lever
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    From the queasy zooms in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertig…

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    Soundies: Jukebox Films and the Shift to Small-Screen Culture
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    All for Beauty: Makeup and Hairdressing in Hollywood's Studio Era
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    4.00     · 4 Ratings · 2 editions
    Ever wonder why so many stars and featured players…

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