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

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"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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: SADOWSKI, PIOTR
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, 2017.
Series:Bloomsbury advances in semiotics.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Germany > History > 20th century.
Semiotics and motion pictures.
Light and darkness.
Cinematography > Lighting.
Germany.
Motion pictures.
History.
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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