Playful Frames : : Styles of Widescreen Cinema / / Steven Rybin.

A widescreen frame in cinema beckons the eye to playfully, creatively roam. Such technology also gives inventive filmmakers room to disrupt and redirect audience expectations, surprising viewers through the use of a wider, more expansive screen. Playful Frames: Styles of Widescreen Cinema studies th...

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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023]
2024
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Techniques of the Moving Image
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Physical Description:1 online resource (198 p.) :; 38 b-w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: A Scope Quartet
  • 1 Jean Negulesco (1900-1993) CinemaScope Connoisseur
  • 2 Blake Edwards (1922-2010) Panavision Pyrotechnics
  • 3 Robert Altman (1925-2006) Diffusive Widescreen
  • 4 John Carpenter (1948-) Anamorphic Haunting
  • Acknowledgments
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • About the Author