Title:
Letterboxed the evolution of widescreen cinema / Harper Cossar.
Main Entry:
Cossar, Harper.
ebrary, Inc.
Publisher:
University Press of Kentucky,
Publication Date:
2011.
Publication Place:
Lexington, Ky. :
ISBN:
9780813126517 (alk. paper)
9780813126593 (e-book)
Subject:
Wide-screen processes (Cinematography) -- History.
Electronic books.
Contents:
Introduction: snakes and funerals -- D.W. Griffith, Buster Keaton, Abel Gance, and the precursors of widescreen aesthetics -- Big trail, the bat whispers, and the invention of widescreen style in 1930 -- Emerging stylistic norms in CinemaScope: genre and authorship in the films of Otto Preminger, Nicholas Ray, Frank Tashlin, and Douglas Sirk -- Experiments, 1968, and the fractured screen -- New media, digitextuality, and widescreen -- Conclusion.
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