Research Catalog

Title

Widescreen worldwide / edited by John Belton, Sheldon Hall and Steve Neale.

Publication

New Barnet, U.K. : John Libbey ; Bloomington, IN : Distributed in N. America by Indiana University Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Belton, John
• Hall, Sheldon
• Neale, Stephen, 1950-

Description

viii, 236 p. : ill.; 27 cm.

Summary

Examining widescreen cinema as a worldwide aesthetic and industrial phenomenon, the essays in this volume situate the individual expressions of this new technology within the larger cultural and industrial practices that inform them. What Hollywood sought to market globally as CinemaScope, SuperScope, Techniscope, Technirama, and Panavision took indigenous form in a host of compatible anamorphic formats developed around the world. The book documents how the aesthetics of the first wave of American widescreen films underwent revision in Europe and Asia as filmmakers brought their own idiolect to the language of widescreen mise-en-scène, editing, and sound practices. The work of Otto Preminger, Anthony Mann, Samuel Fuller, Sam Peckinpah, Seijun Suzuki, Kihachi Okamoto, and Tai Kato, among others, is addressed.

Subject

Wide-screen processes (Cinematography) > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Fox and 50mm film / John Belton -- Standing tall and wide: the selling of VistaVision / Tom Vincent -- IMAX: the Hollywood experience / Paul McDonald -- Cheap but wide: the stylistic exploitation of CinemaScope in black-and-white low-budget American films / Lisa Dombrowski -- Preminger and Peckinpah: seeing and shaping widescreen worlds / John Gibbs and Douglas Pye -- The art of the palpable: composition and staging in the widescreen films of Anthony Mann / Steve Neale -- Alternative versions in the early years of CinemaScope / Sheldon Hall -- Conspicuous consumption: the spectacle of widescreen comedy in the Populuxe era / Kathrina Glitre -- The scope of their ambition: British independent film production and the widescreen formats in the 1950s / Steve Chibnall -- Before Techniscope: the penetration of foreign widescreen technology in Italy, 1953-59 / Federico Vitella -- Widescreen composition and transnational influence: early anamorphic filmmaking in Japan / Eric Crosby -- Another Shaw production: anamorphic adventures in Hong Kong / David Bordwell.

ISBN

• 9780861966943 (hbk.)
• 0861966945 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 663954318
• SCSB-12084188

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library