{"id":584,"date":"2013-10-21T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/10\/21\/how-digital-film-changes-the-racial-politics-of-cinematography\/"},"modified":"2013-10-21T17:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T21:12:00","slug":"how-digital-film-changes-the-racial-politics-of-cinematography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/10\/21\/how-digital-film-changes-the-racial-politics-of-cinematography\/","title":{"rendered":"How digital film changes the racial politics of cinematography"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/movies\/12-years-a-slave-mother-of-george-and-the-aesthetic-politics-of-filming-black-skin\/2013\/10\/17\/282af868-35cd-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"213\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-clHzPu4frdM\/UmWVWpVXBBI\/AAAAAAAAA14\/JTwki4F3DbE\/s320\/Julianne-Moore-as-Brenda-Martin-and-Samuel-L.-Jackson-as-Lorenzo-Council-in-Columbia-Pictures-Freedomland-2006-1.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Many filmmakers have reacted negatively to the industry&#8217;s transition from physical film to digital recordings. For all its benefits \u2013 immediate playback, easier editing, color correction \u2013 some argue that digital filming loses some the warm qualities that make physical film prints enticing. They aren&#8217;t convinced of the benefits, so physical film still has a number of adherents; even the new <i>Star Wars<\/i> movie will use 35mm film.<\/p>\n<p>Add another benefit to that list. A recent article from <i>The Washington Post<\/i> highlights <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/movies\/12-years-a-slave-mother-of-george-and-the-aesthetic-politics-of-filming-black-skin\/2013\/10\/17\/282af868-35cd-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html\">how digital filmmaking has allowed cinematographers to capture a wider and deeper range of skin tones<\/a>. The physical nature of film historically posed a challenge for capturing non-white faces. Now, post-production and higher-quality digital cameras, it&#8217;s is less of a problem. This has been a boon for films by and about African-Americans; the <i>Post<\/i> cites <i>12 Years a Slave<\/i> in particular. It&#8217;s all a little technical to read, but it&#8217;s fascinating to see how technology can inform the politics of film. <\/p>\n<p>(This great article comes to us courtesy of AU film professor Jeff Middents. Thanks Professor!)\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many filmmakers have reacted negatively to the industry&#8217;s transition from physical film to digital recordings. For all its benefits \u2013 immediate playback, easier editing, color correction \u2013 some argue that digital filming loses some the warm qualities that make physical film prints enticing. They aren&#8217;t convinced of the benefits, so physical film still has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[86,212],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-controversial","tag-links-of-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}