On the history and ideology of film lighting

Screen

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1975, Pages 83-106

  Baxter, Peter ^a  

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EID: 62949101061     PISSN: 00369543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/screen/16.3.83     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. German work Henry Siddons: Practical Illustrations of Rhetorical Gesture and Action Adapted to English Drama, 2nd improved ed, London 1822
2. Karl Brown describes how this problem was overcome at Griffith's studio in 1915: ‘
3. D W Griffith, New York 1973, pp 99-100.
4. C W Ceram: Archaeology of the Cinema, London 1965, Plate 268;
5. Rachel Low and Roger Manvell: The History of the British Film 1896-1906, London 1948, Plate 31.(v XV, p 859).
6. Niver, Archaeology of the Cinema, pp 127-8. Of Pippa Passes, the Biograph Bulletin n280’ (Biograph Bulletin 1908-1912, intro by Eileen Bowser, New York 1973).
7. Linda A Griffith: When the Movies Were Young, New York 1968 -first ed 1925 - p 128.
8. Lewis Jacobs: The Rise of the American Film, New York 1939, p 104.
9. Lewis Jacobs:A Grammar of Film, Berkeley 1950 - first ed 1933 - pp57-8.
10. Bernhardt Queen Elizabeth in Benjamin B Hampton: A History of the Movies, New York 1931, Plate 26.
11. Seymour SliveRealism and S Symbolism Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting,’ Daedalus, Summer 1962, pp 469-500.
12. Josef von Sternberg draws attention to this article on p 319 of Fun in a Chinese Laundry, London 1966.
13. Edward Gordon Craig: On the Art of the Theatre, London 1962 - first ed 1911 -p 161
14. W Wagner and Karl Freund, 1920, permeated first the ‘expressionist’ then the ‘psychological realist’ phases of German film with lighting that was perhaps most unlike Hollywood lighting in the thoroughgoing systematidty with which it paralleled the diegetic line.
15. E A Dupont’s Variety, for example, struck American film-makers, and brought Freund to California, where he would later lend his talents to such films as Dracula and The Good Earth.
16. T John Grierson, in America on his Rockefeller grant to study the American cinema
17. John Grierson: Putting Atmosphere in Pictures,’ Motion Picture News, v 34 n 23, December 4, 1926, pp 2141-2).