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"Ladies and gentlemen: THIS IS CINERAMA." With these words, on September 30, 1952, the heavy red curtains in New York's Broadway Theatre opened on a panoramic Technicolor image of the Rockaways Playland Atom-Smasher Roller Coaster--and moviegoers were abruptly plunged into a new and r...
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Belton, John, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Widescreen Cinema / John Belton. Reprint 2014 Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013] ©1992 1 online resource (300 p.) : 36 halftones, 15 line illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION : WRITING HISTORY BACKWARD -- 1. The Shape of Things to Come -- 2. From Novelty to Norm -- 3. Wide Film and the General Audience -- 4. The Leisured Masses -- 5. Cinerama: A New Era in the Cinema -- 6. CinemaScope: A Poor Man’s Cinerama -- 7. The Development of CinemaScope -- 8. Todd-AO: The Hallmark of Quality -- 9. Spectator and Screen -- 10. The Shape of Money -- NOTES -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star "Ladies and gentlemen: THIS IS CINERAMA." With these words, on September 30, 1952, the heavy red curtains in New York's Broadway Theatre opened on a panoramic Technicolor image of the Rockaways Playland Atom-Smasher Roller Coaster--and moviegoers were abruptly plunged into a new and revolutionary experience. The cinematic transformation heralded by this giddy ride was, however, neither as sudden nor as straightforward as it seemed. Widescreen Cinema leads us through the twists and turns and decades it took for film to change its shape and, along the way, shows how this fitful process reflects the vagaries of cultural history. Widescreen and wide-film processes had existed since the 1890s. Why, then, John Belton asks, did 35mm film become a standard? Why did a widescreen revolution fail in the 1920s but succeed in the 1950s? And why did movies shrink again in the 1960s, leaving us with the small screen multiplexes and mall cinemas that we know today? The answers, he discovers, have as much to do with popular notions of leisure time and entertainment as with technology. Beginning with film's progress from peepshow to projection in 1896 and focusing on crucial stages in film history, such as the advent of sound, Belton puts widescreen cinema into its proper cultural context. He shows how Cinerama, CinemaScope, Vista Vision, Todd-AO, and other widescreen processes marked significant changes in the conditions of spectatorship after World War 11 -and how the film industry itself sought to redefine those conditions. The technical, the economic, the social, the aesthetic -every aspect of the changes shaping and reshaping film comes under Belton's scrutiny as he reconstructs the complex history of widescreen cinema and relates this history to developments in mass-produced leisure-time entertainment in the twentieth century. Highly readable even at its most technical, this book illuminates a central episode in the evolution of cinema and, in doing so, reveals a great deal about the shifting fit between film and society. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021) Breitwandfilm. Cinemascope. Cinematography. Cinéma panoramique. Cinéma panoramique. Filmvertoningen. Fotografie, Video, Computerkunst. Wide-screen processes (Cinematography) History. Wide-screen processes (Cinematography). PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General. Wide-screen processes (Cinematography) -- History. ART / Film & Video. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package 9783110353488 ZDB-23-HCO Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: World History eBook Package 9783110353563 ZDB-23-HWH Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 9783110442212 print 9780674335325 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674335349 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674335349 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674335349.jpg |
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