Close-Ups and Long Shots in Modern Chinese Cinemas Deppman Hsiu-Chuang
Close-Ups and Long Shots in Modern Chinese Cinemas Deppman Hsiu-Chuang Two of the most stylized shots in cinema--the close-up and the long shot--embody distinct attractions. The depth of the long…
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Close-Ups and Long Shots in Modern Chinese Cinemas Deppman Hsiu-Chuang
Two of the most stylized shots in cinema--the close-up and the long shot--embody distinct attractions. The depth of the long shot, in contrast, indexes the facts of life and reinforces our faith in reality. The iconicity of the close-up magnifies the affective power of faces and elevates film to the discourse of art.
Close-ups and Long Shots in Modern Chinese Cinemas is the first book to compare these two shots within the cultural, historical, and cinematic traditions that produced them. Each configures the relation between image and distance that expands the viewer's power to see, feel, and conceive.To understand why a director prefers one type of shot over the other then is to explore more than aesthetics: It uncovers significant assumptions about film as an art of intervention or organic representation. In particular, the global revival of Confucian studies and the