Dutch Angle
A Dutch Angle , also known as Dutch Tilt , Oblique Angle or Canted Angle , is an oblique camera perspective in photography and film . It is used to give the viewer an unreal or disorienting impression. Characteristic is the leaning horizon in the picture , which can be combined with a top or bottom view.
The oblique perspectives were used in particular in the avant-garde film ( The man with the camera , USSR 1929) and in the expressionist German cinema of the 1920s, so that the term “German Angle” established itself internationally. Because of the similarity of the word “German” to the English word “dutch” (dt .: Dutch ), the term “Dutch Angle” soon began to circulate.
The film noir of the 1940s and 1950s, which was influenced by expressionist cinema, made repeated use of this stylistic device. Well-known examples are The Third Man ( Great Britain 1949) and The Sign of Evil ( USA 1958).
literature
- Blain Brown: Cinematography: Theory and Practice: Image Making for Cinematographers and Directors. Focal Press, Waltham (Massachusetts) 2011, ISBN 978-024-081209-0 .
- David E. Elkins: The Camera Assistant's Manual. Focal Press, Burlington (Massachusetts) / Oxford 2009, ISBN 978-024-081057-7 .
- Bruce Mamer: Film Production Technique: Creating the Accomplished Image. Wadsworth, Belmont (California) 2009, ISBN 978-049-541116-1 .
- Div .: The weird camera. Forms and functions of the unusual camera perspective in film and television. In: Image. Journal for interdisciplinary image science. No. 1/2005, Herbert von Halem Verlagsgesellschaft, Cologne 2005, ISSN 1614-0885 , pp. 127–182. Online on the website of the University of Tübingen, accessed on April 1, 2012.
Individual evidence
- ^ Roy Thompson, Christopher J. Bowen: Grammar of the Shot. Focal Press, Burlington (Massachusetts) / Oxford 2009, ISBN 978-0-240-52120-6 , p. 179.
- ^ Foster Hirsch: The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir. Da Capo Press, 2001, ISBN 0-306-81039-5 .