Widescreen worldwide
By: edited by John Belton, Sheldon Hall and Steve Neale
Publisher: JL [John Libbey Pub.]; Distributed in N. America by Indiana University Press; John Libbey Publishing; Indiana University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Barnet, U.K; Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780861966943
Subjects: Wide-screen processes (Cinematography); History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: [Pt.] I. History, technology and innovation. Fox and 50mm film / John Belton; title: Standing tall and wide : the selling of VistaVision / Tom Vincent; title: IMAX : the Hollywood experience / Paul McDonald; title: [pt.] II. Textual analysis, aesthetics and film form. Cheap but wide : the stylistic exploitation of CinemaScope in black-and-white low-budget American films / Lisa Dombrowski; title: Preminger and Peckinpah : seeing and shaping widescreen worlds / John Gibbs and Douglas Pye; title: The art of the palpable : composition and staging in the widescreen films of Anthony Mann / Steve Neale; title: [pt.] III. Themes and formats. Alternative versions in the early years of CinemaScope / Sheldon Hall; title: Conspicuous consumption : the spectacle of widescreen comedy in the Populuxe era / Kathrina Glitre; title: [pt.] IV. Widescreen worldwide. The scope of their ambition : British independent film production and the widescreen formats in the 1950s / Steve Chibnall; title: Before Techniscope : the penetration of foreign widescreen technology in Italy, 1953-59 / Federico Vitella; title: Widescreen composition and transnational influence : early anamorphic filmmaking in Japan / Eric Crosby; title: Another Shaw production : anamorphic adventures in Hong Kong / David Bordwell.