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From Eugene Delacroix's interpretation of the 1830 French
revolution to Uli Edel's version of the Baader-Meinhof Gang,
artistic representations of historical subjects are appealing and
pervasive. Movies often adapt imagery from art history, including
paintings of historical events. Films and art shape the past for us
and continue to affect our interpretation of history. While
historical films are often argued over for their adherence to "the
facts," their real problem is realism: how can the past be
convincingly depicted? Realism in the historical film genre is
often nourished and given credibility by its use of painterly
references. This book examines how art-historical images affect
historical films by going beyond period detail and surface design
to look at how profound ideas about history are communicated
through pictures. Art and the Historical Film: Between Realism and
the Sublime is based on case studies that explore the links between
art and cinema, including American independent Western Meek's
Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010), British heritage film Belle (Amma
Asante, 2013), and Dutch national epic Admiral (Roel Reine, 2014).
The chapters create immersive worlds that communicate distinct
ideas about the past through cinematography, production design, and
direction, as the films adapt, reference, and transpose paintings
by artists such as Rubens, Albert Bierstadt, and Jacques-Louis
David.
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 establish period
detail, and to teach composition, color theory and lighting. The
book looks at the key moments in the development of the Western
painting, and how these became part of the Western visual culture
from which cinema emerges, before exploring how paintings can be
representative of different genres, such as horror, sex, violence,
realism and fantasy, and how the images in these paintings connect
with cinema. Insightful case studies explore the links between art
and cinema through the work of seven high-profile filmmakers,
including Peter Greenaway, Peter Webber, Jack Cardiff, Martin
Scorsese, Guillermo del Toro, Quentin Tarantino and Stan Douglas. A
range of practical exercises are included in the text, which can be
carried out singly or in small teams. Featuring stunning full-color
images, Art History for Filmmakers provides budding filmmakers with
a practical guide to how images from art can help to develop their
understanding of the visual language of film.
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