The cinema as a graphic art : on a theory of representation in the cinema (1959)

Record Details:

Title:
The cinema as a graphic art : on a theory of representation in the cinema
Date:
1959
Publisher:
New York : Hill and Wang
Volume:
The cinema as a graphic art : on a theory of representation in the cinema
Leaf #:
00045
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
July 11, 2024
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THE COMPOSITIONAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE SHOT Fig. 20. — Motivation for foreshortening construction. be crushed to the ground. " Mother " also provides an example of foreshortening which has become ' classic ' in cinematic practice. I refer to the shot of the policeman, in which foreshortening produced by filming from a viewpoint lower than normal intensifies the impression of towering strength conveyed by this agent of Tsarist autocracy. There is a sequence in " Potemkin " in which the camera-man Iisse has achieved a symbolic awakening of sculptured lions at the first shots from the insurgent battleship. He gets this effect by successive modification of the foreshortening in each shot, followed by constructive editing. In the same film he employs foreshortening to demonstrate the mechanical might of the battleship, 47