Black & White Cinema: A Short History

by Wheeler Winston Dixon

Book Overview

From the glossy monochrome of the classic Hollywood romance, to the gritty greyscale of the gangster picture, to film noir's moody interplay of light and shadow, black-and-white cinematography has been used to create a remarkably wide array of tones. Yet today, with black-and-white film stock nearly impossible to find, these cinematographic techniques are virtually extinct, and filmgoers' appreciation of them is similarly waning.

Black and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081357241X
• ISBN13: 9780813572413
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 15 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 10 and higher