Title:
Art history for filmmakers : the art of visual storytelling / Gillian McIver.
Author:
McIver, Gillian, author.
Publication Information:
London ; New York, NY : Fairchild Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PIc, [2016]
Call Number:
N72.M6 M39 2016
Abstract:
"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 and lighting. The book looks at the key moments in the development of the Western painting, and how these became part of the Western visual culture from which cinema emerges, before exploring how paintings can be representative of different genres, such as horror, sex, violence, realism and fantasy, and how the images in these paintings connect with cinema. Insightful case studies explore the links between art and cinema through the work of seven high-profile filmmakers, including Peter Greenaway, Peter Webber, Jack Cardiff, Martin Scorsese, Guillermo del Toro, Quentin Tarantino and Stan Douglas. A range of practical exercises are included in the text, which can be carried out singly or in small teams. Featuring stunning full-color images, Art History for Filmmakers provides budding filmmakers with a practical guide to how images from art can help to develop their understanding of the visual language of film"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9781472580658
Physical Description:
256 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Contents:
Introduction : How does art history relate to cinema history? ; A brief linear (traditional) history of art ; Toward an "alternative" history of art -- Part I: Visual culture and storytelling : Narrative and storytelling in art ; Color and narrative ; Kandinsky's color theory in painting and in cinema ; Perspective and composition ; Light ; Case study: Peter Greenaway and Dutch painting -- Realism : What is realism? ; What is representation? ; Art after photography : modern conceptions of realism in art ; Case study: Realism and the camera obscura -- Beyond realism : Fantasy worlds in cinema and art ; Oneiric: the world of dreams ; Surrealism ; Going beyond the real ; Case study: The Archers -- Part II. Sex and violence : Sex in art and cinema ; Violence in art and cinema ; Sex and violence ; Case study: Martin Scorsese and Caravaggio -- Horror : Religious horror ; Supernatural horror ; Body horror ; Monsters ; Case study: Guillermo del Toro and Francisco de Goya -- Landscape : Why landscape? ; Beautiful, picturesque, or sublime? ; The American landscape and the American West ; Case study: The road movie -- Heroes and heroic acts : History painting : victory, virtue, and the hero ; Heroism and the Western ; Case study: Subverting the heroic genre -- Modern movements : Culture or mass culture? ; Expressionism ; Abstraction ; Abstract expressionism ; Minimalism ; Going "beyond the West" ; Case study: Hokusai to Disney -- Conclusion : How can we use art history in filmmaking? : Case studies -- Appendix : Timeline ; Glossary.
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