Widescreen Cinema /

Widescreen Cinema / / John Belton.

"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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
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Belton, John,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1992
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (300 p.) :; 36 halftones, 15 line illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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