Letterboxed : the evolution of widescreen cinema /
Exploring the technological changes of the widescreen technique and how the format has inspired directors and also sparked debates among film critics, Cossar also explains how directors use wider aspect ratios to enhance their creative visions.
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2011.
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Series: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.