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From the Portrait to the Close-Up: Gender and Technology in Still Photography and Hollywood Cinematography
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 45, Number 3, Spring 2006
- pp. 90-108
- 10.1353/cj.2006.0034
- Article
- Additional Information
During the second two decades of the twentieth century, Hollywood cinematographers drew on the conventions of portrait photography to develop their own figure-lighting strategies. Although the two practices relied on different kinds of technology, cinematographers retained the larger strategy of structuring their stylistic techniques according to a logic of sexual difference.