Face, Race, and Screen
Face, Race, and Screen
Close-ups and the Transition to the Feature Film
In the second chapter, I discuss debates about the close-up—focusing on both the discourse surrounding the close-up in the latter part of cinema’s transitional era as well as on contemporary theoretical debates in film studies. If, in the first years of the twentieth century, the cinema was finding many ways to turn exhibition into narrative, by the teens American cinema turned its attention toward realism and respectability, which often meant turning away from its past. As American cinema stood out at the threshold of the feature film era, cinema’s realism and cultural status would depend upon formal techniques that would ensure spatial and temporal coherence and encourage the spectator’s identification and “incorporation” into the cinematic text.
Keywords: Cinema, Race, Technology, Body, Shadow, Rhetoric, Image, Performance
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