Letterboxed [electronic resource] : the evolution of widescreen cinema / Harper Cossar.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, 2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (x, 293 p. :) illContent type:- text
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- 9780813126593
- 778.5/3 22
- TR855 .C67 2011
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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