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Cossar, Harper.

Letterboxed the evolution of widescreen cinema / [electronic resource] : Harper Cossar. - Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, 2011. - 1 online resource (x, 293 p. :) ill. ; - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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Wide-screen processes (Cinematography)--History.


Electronic books.

TR855 / .C67 2011

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