Research Catalog

Title

Playful frames : styles of widescreen cinema / Steven Rybin.

Author

Rybin, Steven, 1979-

Publication

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2024]

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Details

Description

vii, 186 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"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 the poetics of the auteur-driven widescreen image, offering nimble, expansive analyses of the work of four distinctive filmmakers - Jean Negulesco, Blake Edwards, Robert Altman, and John Carpenter - who creatively inhabited the nooks and crannies of widescreen moviemaking during the final decades of the twentieth century. Exploring the relationship between aspect ratio and subject matter, Playful Frames shows how directors make puckish use of widescreen technology. All four of these distinctive filmmakers reimagined popular genres (such as melodrama, slapstick comedy, film noir, science fiction, and horror cinema) through their use of the wide frame, and each brings a range of intermedial interests (painting, performance, and music) to their use of the widescreen image. This study looks specifically at the technological underpinnings, aesthetic shapes, and interpretive implications of these four directors' creative use of widescreen, offering a way to reconsider the way wide imagery still has the potential to amaze and move us today"--

Series Statement

Techniques of the moving image

Uniform Title

Techniques of the moving image.

Subject

• Wide-screen processes (Cinematography) > Case studies
• Motion picture producers and directors > United States > Case studies
• Motion picture producers and directors
• Wide-screen processes (Cinematography)
• United States

Genre/Form

Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-180).

Contents

Introduction : a scope quartet -- Jean Negulesco (1900-1993) : CinemaScope connoisseur -- Blake Edwards (1922-2010) : Panavision pyrotechnics -- Robert Altman (1925-2006) : diffusive widescreen -- John Carpenter (1948 -- ) : anamorphic haunting.

Call Number

MFL 23-4132

ISBN

• 9781978815957
• 1978815956
• 9781978815940
• 1978815948
• 9781978815964 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781978815988 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023008684

OCLC

1372549262

Author

Rybin, Steven, 1979- author.

Title

Playful frames : styles of widescreen cinema / Steven Rybin.

Publisher

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2024]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Techniques of the moving image

Techniques of the moving image.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-180).

Research Call Number

MFL 23-4132