Screen LibraryLetterboxed：the evolution of widescreen cinema
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University Press of Kentucky,
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| Publisher Address: | Lexington, Ky. |
| Publication Dates: | c2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 293 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780813126517 (hbk.) 0813126517 (alk. paper) 9780813126593 (ebook) 0813126592 (ebook) |
| Index Number: | J93 |
| CLC: | J93 |
| Call Number: | J93/C836 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-285) and index. Introduction : "snakes and funerals" -- D.W. Griffith, Buster Keaton, Abel Gance, and the precursors of widescreen aesthetics -- The 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. |