Art History for Filmmakers: The Art of Visual Storytelling

by Gillian McIver

Since cinema's earliest days, literary adaptation has provided the movies with stories; and so we use literary terms like metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501362305
• ISBN13: 9781501362309
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.2" x 10.6"