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...Alton-Mann films - T-Men, He Walked by Night, Reign of Terror, Border Incident and Devil's Doorway - are unlike any other noirs in their visual density and tonal texture. Like many movies in the genre, these are indebted to the look that Orson Welles and Gregg Toland created for Citizen Kane: chiaroscuro lighting, characters in extreme closeup or long shot, and plenty of low-angle shots. Alton pushed these tenets further than most. He shot even the sitting figures from below, with the tops of rooms pressing down on them; he loved ceiling shots more than Japanese tourists...
...Where there is no light, one cannot see," he wrote in his book. "And when one cannot see, his imagination runs wild. He begins to suspect that something is about to happen.In the dark there is mystery." Alton put this theory into practice, spectacularly; he become the master of visual mystery...
...McCarthy notes, Alton liked to throw whatever light he needed on a back wall, leaving the actors as foreground shadows. Sometimes the only thing visible in a closeup is the white of a man's eyes, or the moisture in a woman's. The enveloping shadows reduce the visual information, isolate elements to which the audience's attention can be directed. In Raw Deal, Alton's closeups of Claire Trevor and Marsha Hunt manage to catch a cross of light in the left eye of each actress, and another glistening cross in their earrings. Later, to show that time...
...American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form.” Other courses include Quantitative Reasoning 48, “Bits,” taught by McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis, and English 125, “Shakespeare and Modern Culture,” taught by Visual and Environmental Studies Department Chair Marjorie Garber. Students taking these classes through the Extension school pay $650 to take the class for no credit or Extension School credit, and $1,575 for graduate credit. The one exception is “Bits,” which charges $1,575 for noncredit...