John Alton : essays on the cinematographer's art and craft / edited by Leon Lewis.

Contributor(s):

Lewis, Leon, 1940- []

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781476639048

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

TR849 .J646 2020

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Contents:

Leon Lewis -- John Alton : a filmography. Argentine period / Todd McCarthy -- American period / Dennis Jakob -- Women (good and bad) in the later films of John Alton / Toney Frazier -- Portrait of an auteur framed in shadow / Sarah E. Davis -- Mimesis, mode and method : John Alton's film noir / A.B. Adcock -- The observer observed : John Alton and Vincente Minnelli and the domestic domain / KC Clemens -- O master, when art thou? The anemia of production. Memory and the failed promise of the digital revolution / Jeffrey P. Martell -- Alton and the Western : re-mapping the terrain / Tom Wallis -- Farm noir : agriculture, empathy and genre in The grapes of wrath and Border incident / Zackary Vernon and Jessica L. Martell -- Light is life, darkness death : light and darkness in raw deal / Brian Faucette.

Subject: "Devoted to his craft-sometimes to the detriment of his reputation-cinematographer John Alton (1901-1996) was sought after by such directors as Vincente Minnelli, Richard Brooks and Anthony Mann but disdained by others of comparable talent. An auteur in the truest sense, Alton established a landmark body of work described by Variety film critic Todd McCarthy as "The essence, and ultimate example, of film noir ... logically created by a cinematographer, not a director." This collection of new essays by filmmakers and film scholars explores the central role Alton's distinctive style of "painting with light" played in formulating the aesthetics of noir, as well as his contributions to other genres"--

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: The poetics of the director of photography's palette / Leon Lewis -- John Alton : a filmography. Argentine period / Todd McCarthy -- American period / Dennis Jakob -- Women (good and bad) in the later films of John Alton / Toney Frazier -- Portrait of an auteur framed in shadow / Sarah E. Davis -- Mimesis, mode and method : John Alton's film noir / A.B. Adcock -- The observer observed : John Alton and Vincente Minnelli and the domestic domain / KC Clemens -- O master, when art thou? The anemia of production. Memory and the failed promise of the digital revolution / Jeffrey P. Martell -- Alton and the Western : re-mapping the terrain / Tom Wallis -- Farm noir : agriculture, empathy and genre in The grapes of wrath and Border incident / Zackary Vernon and Jessica L. Martell -- Light is life, darkness death : light and darkness in raw deal / Brian Faucette.

"Devoted to his craft-sometimes to the detriment of his reputation-cinematographer John Alton (1901-1996) was sought after by such directors as Vincente Minnelli, Richard Brooks and Anthony Mann but disdained by others of comparable talent. An auteur in the truest sense, Alton established a landmark body of work described by Variety film critic Todd McCarthy as "The essence, and ultimate example, of film noir ... logically created by a cinematographer, not a director." This collection of new essays by filmmakers and film scholars explores the central role Alton's distinctive style of "painting with light" played in formulating the aesthetics of noir, as well as his contributions to other genres"--

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