Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir (Hardcover)

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Rhetoric of Light
Part I: Lighting in the Silent Period
1. Mechanics or Artists?
2. From the Portrait to the Close-Up
3. The Drama of Light
4. Organizing the Image
Part II: Classical Hollywood Lighting
5. Inventing the Observer
6. Conventions and Functions
7. The Art of Balance
Part III: Shifting Patterns of Shadow
8. The Promises and Problems of Technicolor
9. The Flow of the River
10. Film Noir and the Limits of Classicism
Conclusion: Epilogue
Notes
Index