The Zoom
Drama at the Touch of a Lever
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Published:11th May '18
Should be back in stock very soon
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Hardback£124.00(9780813587219)
From the queasy zooms in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo to the avant-garde mystery of Michael Snow’s Wavelength, from the excitement of televised baseball to the drama of the political convention, the zoom shot is instantly recognizable and highly controversial. In The Zoom, Nick Hall traces the century-spanning history of the zoom lens in American film and television. From late 1920s silent features to the psychedelic experiments of the 1960s and beyond, the book describes how inventors battled to provide film and television studios with practical zoom lenses, and how cinematographers clashed over the right ways to use the new zooms. Hall demonstrates how the zoom brought life and energy to cinema decades before the zoom boom of the 1970s and reveals how the zoom continues to play a vital and often overlooked role in the production of contemporary film and television.
"New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, June 8," by Nina C. Ayoub— Chronicle of Higher Education
"Outstanding and engaging, Zoom makes a significant contribution to the scholarship of cinematography, allowing scholars to see zoom technology afresh."— Patrick Keating, editor of Cinematography
ISBN: 9780813587202
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
Weight: unknown
226 pages