SEMIOTICS OF LIGHT AND SHADOWS : modern visual arts and weimar cinema.

"Lighting and shadows are used within a range of art forms to create aesthetic effects. Piotr Sadowski's study of light and shadow in Weimar cinema and contemporaneous visual arts is underpinned by the evolutionary semiotic theories of indexicality and iconicity. These theories explain the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: SADOWSKI, PIOTR
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, 2017.
Series:Bloomsbury advances in semiotics.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Motion pictures > Germany > History > 20th century.
Semiotics and motion pictures.
Light and darkness.
Cinematography > Lighting.
Cinéma > Allemagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Sémiotique et cinéma.
Cinéma > Éclairage.
Lumière et ténèbres.
Semiotics > semiology.
Films, cinema.
Linguistics.
ART > Performance.
ART > Reference.
Motion pictures
Cinematography > Lighting
Light and darkness
Semiotics and motion pictures
Germany
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: In the Kingdom of Shadows
  • 1 Natural Shadows, Represented Shadows: From Optical Phenomena to Semiotic Signs
  • 2 Light and Shadows in the Visual Arts
  • 3 Fixing Iconic Indexes
  • 4 Light and Shadows in Early Cinema
  • 5 Expressionist Light and Shadows in Weimar Cinema
  • 6 Shadows in the City
  • Notes
  • Bibliography

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