Author Christopher Beach Film Style Book sku-43297823

A Hidden History of Film Style: Cinematographers, Directors, and the Collaborative Process, Edition 1, is a hardcover book by Author Christopher Beach, listed under Performing Arts Books. It studies how directors and cinematographers worked together in American cinema from the silent era to the late twentieth century.

Beach uses oral histories, early industry trade journals and other primary materials to examine deep focus, color and digital cinematography. He argues that these collaborations challenge the view of the director as sole auteur and shows how cinematographers contributed to film technique and visual style. The book discusses the partnerships of D. W.

Griffith and Billy Bitzer, William Wyler and Gregg Toland, and Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Burks. SKU sku-43297823.