Max Ophuls and the Limits of Virtuosity: On the Aesthetics and Ethics of Camera Movement
Max Ophuls and the Limits of Virtuosity: On the Aesthetics and Ethics of Camera Movement
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马克斯·奥菲尔斯和精湛技艺的极限:论摄影机运动的美学和伦理
DOI:
10.1086/661646
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发表时间:
2011
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影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
Daniel Morgan
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作者:
Daniel Morgan
Less than two years after the screening of the first films in December 1895, the moving camera had already become a prominent feature of cinema. Cameras were placed on moving sidewalks and elevators, on the front of trams, boats, and (especially) trains; they constituted one of the main attractions in early cinema.1 And yet, despite their prominence within the history of cinema, camera movements have remained surprisingly marginal and elusive in critical work. Often discussed within analyses of films and filmmakers, they are rarely the explicit subject of analyses themselves. Part of the difficulty, I suspect, has to do with the sheer variety of things that camera movements do. Most often, they function to establish a sense of space within a continuous temporal duration, all the while generating an expressiveness that works in conjunction with the events or dialogue taking place. The single shot that comprises the embrace between Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in Notorious (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1946) is exemplary in this regard, as Hitchcock uses an unbroken and mobile shot