TY - BOOK AU - Cossar,Harper ED - Project Muse. TI - Letterboxed: the evolution of widescreen cinema SN - 9780813126593 AV - TR855 .C67 2011 U1 - 778.5/3 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Lexington, KY PB - University Press of Kentucky KW - Wide-screen processes (Cinematography) KW - History KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813126593/ ER -