Overview

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.

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Author:   Nick Hall
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.315kg
ISBN:  

9780813587202

ISBN 10:   0813587204
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   11 May 2018
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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

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

"""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"""

"""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 ""New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, June 8,"" by Nina C. Ayoub— Chronicle of Higher Education"

Author Information

NICK HALL is a research officer in the Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London in the United Kingdom.

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