The Zoom
226 pages, 6 x 9
25 b-w photographs
Hardcover
Release Date:11 May 2018
ISBN:9780813587219
The Zoom
Drama at the Touch of a Lever
By Nick Hall
SERIES:
Techniques of the Moving Image
Rutgers University Press
From the queasy zooms in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo to the avant-garde mystery of Michael Snow’s Wavelength, from the excitement of televised baseball to the drama of the political convention, the zoom shot is instantly recognizable and highly controversial. In The Zoom, Nick Hall traces the century-spanning history of the zoom lens in American film and television. From late 1920s silent features to the psychedelic experiments of the 1960s and beyond, the book describes how inventors battled to provide film and television studios with practical zoom lenses, and how cinematographers clashed over the right ways to use the new zooms. Hall demonstrates how the zoom brought life and energy to cinema decades before the zoom boom of the 1970s and reveals how the zoom continues to play a vital and often overlooked role in the production of contemporary film and television.
Outstanding and engaging, Zoom makes a significant contribution to the scholarship of cinematography, allowing scholars to see zoom technology afresh.
New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, June 8,' by Nina C. Ayoub
Outstanding and engaging, Zoom makes a significant contribution to the scholarship of cinematography, allowing scholars to see zoom technology afresh.
New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, June 8,' by Nina C. Ayoub
NICK HALL is a research officer in the Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London in the United Kingdom.
1 Introduction
2 Drama at the Touch of a Lever
3 Take Me Out To the Ball Game
4 Unlimited Horizons
5 Creepers and Neck-Snappers
6 The Zoom Boom
7 Contemporary Zooms
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Index
2 Drama at the Touch of a Lever
3 Take Me Out To the Ball Game
4 Unlimited Horizons
5 Creepers and Neck-Snappers
6 The Zoom Boom
7 Contemporary Zooms
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Index
