Title
From the Portrait to the Close-Up: Gender and Technology in Still Photography and Hollywood Cinematography
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2006
Abstract
During the second two decades of the twentieth century, Hollywood, cinematographers drew on the conventions of portrait photography to develop their own figure-lighting strategies. Although the two practices relied on different kinds of technology, cinematographers retained the larger strategy of structuring their stylistic techniques according to a logic of sexual difference.
DOI
10.1353/cj.2006.0034
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Repository Citation
Keating, P. (2006). From the portrait to the close-up: Gender and technology in still photography and hollywood cinematography. Cinema Journal, 45(3), 90-108. https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2006.0034
Publication Information
Cinema Journal