Drawing on a millennia of calligraphy theory and history, Brushed in Light examines how the brushed word appears in films and in film cultures of Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and PRC cinemas. This includes silent era intertitles, subtitles, title frames, letters, graffiti, end titles, and props. Markus Nornes also looks at the role of calligraphy in film culture at large, from gifts to correspondence to advertising. The book begins with a historical dimension, tracking how calligraphy is initially used in early cinema and how it is continually rearticulated by transforming conventions and the integration of new technologies. These chapters ask how calligraphy creates new meaning in cinema and demonstrate how calligraphy, cinematography, and acting work together in a single film. The last part of the book moves to other regions of theory. Nornes explores the cinematization of the handwritten word and explores how calligraphers understand their own work.
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"Markus Nornes' Brushed in Light is a fantastic investigation of the history and importance of calligraphy in East Asian cinema...The text is not only original in its fundamental topic, but fascinating in its depth of detail and generally superb in its execution. Nornes deftly combines discussions of calligraphy's history and conservative protection under formal schools with the novel, playful, and exceptional use in cinema in a way that is engaging even to those without a background in the various fields his book straddles." - International Journal of Asian Studies * International Journal of Asian Studies * "Nornes' fascination with the cinematic calligraph is more than just a curiosity; his passion for the art can be found on each page of the book. . . Ultimately, though, as this book points out, it is cinema that captures the calligraphic image, whether static or in motion, and presents it back to us as a form of edifying spectacle." * Peter C. Pugsley, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies *
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 216 mm
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978-0-472-13255-3 (9780472132553)
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Markus Nornes is Professor of Asian Cinema at the University of Michigan.
