Hegemonic Cinematography Exercise

Professor Ruth Goldman, SUNY Buffalo State

This in-class exercise is designed to encourage students to think about the political aesthetics embedded in film lighting choices especially in regard to skin color. In other words, lighting and mise-en-scene are more than just visual style. Materials include a description of the exercise with video links and a PowerPoint slideshow from a conference presentation on the exercise.

Assignment description: Hegemonic-Cinematography-Exercise

PowerPoint file: Powerpoint EDIT Media Lighting Ex

 


Keywords: cinematography, lighting, mise-en-scene, people of color