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Widescreen Cinema
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Author : John Belton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Widescreen Cinema written by John Belton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
"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.
Letterboxed
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Author : Harper Cossar
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2011-01-01
Letterboxed written by Harper Cossar and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Cooking categories.
When widescreen technology was introduced to filmmaking in 1953, it revolutionized the visual framework and aesthetic qualities of cinema. Many modern moviegoers are already familiar with the widescreen revolution, which recently made its way from the big screen to the home screen. What remains hidden, however, is the rich history of this technology and its origins. Letterboxed: The Evolution of Widescreen Cinema tracks the development of widescreen cinema from the early twentieth century to contemporary technologies such as video games and IMAX. Examining early filmmakers such as buster Keaton and D.W. Griffith and genre pioneers like Nicholas Ray and Douglas Sirk, Harper Cossar explains how directors use wider aspect ratios to enhance their creative visions. Whereas previous analyses of widescreen cinema have pointed out the format capacity to increase an audience's level of engagement during viewing, or have heralded it as an end to the era of montage by analyzing a few canonical films. Cossar's new assessment of widescreen technology offers deeper insights into the aesthetic implications of the format. Letterboxed examines the impact of widescreen cinema by broadening the scope of films included in the discussion and by focusing specifically on classical Hollywood genre films directed by recognized auteurs. By examining the differences between widescreen format and its predecessor, the Academy ration, Cossar distinguishes between the physical and stylistic ruptures prompted by widescreen technology. Not only did widescreen offer an alternative to the traditional aspect ratio of the screen, but it also introduced new methods of working within cinematic tropes to utilize space and action more effectively. Cossar examines films throughout the history of cinema, uncovering the trends and changes that result from the use of widescreen, and also discusses the flexibility of widescreen methods as applied in various film genres. He reviews existing scholarship and offers his own insights about the origins of this technology, its impact, and its more recent uses in both live-action and animated film.
Widescreen Worldwide
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Author : John Belton
language : en
Publisher: JOHN LIBBEY PUBLISHING
Release Date : 2010
Widescreen Worldwide written by John Belton and has been published by JOHN LIBBEY PUBLISHING this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Performing Arts categories.
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.
Playful Frames
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Author : Steven Rybin
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2023-10-13
Playful Frames written by Steven Rybin and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-13 with Performing Arts categories.
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.
Widefilm Widescreen
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Author : Anthony J. Zaza
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-01-08
Widefilm Widescreen written by Anthony J. Zaza and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-08 with Performing Arts categories.
Film & Media Studies Reference Text Widefilm Widescreen is a comprehensive chronological technical history of large format presentation and widescreen cinema from 1833 to 2023. From optical toys to Cinemascope, IMAX and beyond, this book features cameras, projectors, movie memorabilia, charts, techical specs, and screen scans, screen aspect ratios. Includes sections on 3D, 4D, Special Venue, Theme Parks, Immersive environments. bibliography, appendix, Index.n
Cinematic Appeals
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Author : Ariel Rogers
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-22
Cinematic Appeals written by Ariel Rogers and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-22 with Performing Arts categories.
Cinematic Appeals follows the effect of technological innovation on the cinema experience, specifically the introduction of widescreen and stereoscopic 3D systems in the 1950s, the rise of digital cinema in the 1990s, and the transition to digital 3D since 2005. Widescreen films drew the spectator into the world of the screen, enabling larger-than-life close-ups of already larger-than-life actors. The technology fostered the illusion of physically entering a film, enhancing the semblance of realism. Alternatively, the digital era was less concerned with manipulating the viewer’s physical response and more with generating information flow, awe, disorientation, and the disintegration of spatial boundaries. This study ultimately shows how cinematic technology and the human experience shape and respond to each other over time. Films discussed include Elia Kazan’s East of Eden (1955), Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999), The Matrix (1999), and Thomas Vinterberg’s Dogme film The Celebration (1998).
Japanese Widescreen Cinema
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Author : Jasper Sharp
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Japanese Widescreen Cinema written by Jasper Sharp and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
Technologies Of Anamorphic Vision Widescreen Cinema And Postwar Modernity In Japan And South Korea
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Technologies Of Anamorphic Vision Widescreen Cinema And Postwar Modernity In Japan And South Korea written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
This dissertation, "Technologies of Anamorphic Vision: Widescreen Cinema and Postwar Modernity in Japan and South Korea," investigates the technological, cultural, and aesthetic practices and experiences involved in Japanese and South Korean widescreen film cultures from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s. While various widescreen processes were developed by the Hollywood film industry in the 1950s, widescreen film technology was used in Japan and South Korea more persistently and pervasively. Having converted almost all of their postwar films to widescreen cinema with the 1:2.35 aspect ratio in the late 1950s and early 1960s, both Japan and South Korea were major countries of the mass production and mass consumption of widescreen cinema until the mid-1970s. This technological and temporal synchronicity is even more intriguing when we consider that almost no substantial filmic exchanges took place between the two countries until 1998. In my dissertation, I demonstrate the significance of widescreen technology and widescreen aesthetics in examining transnational East Asian cinema as well as the relationship between cinema and technology. It aims to contribute to expanding the scope of the studies of film technology and to offer a fresh approach to the field of transnational East Asian cinema studies.
Wide Screen Cinema And Stereophonic Sound
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Author : Mikhail Zinovʹevich Vysot︠s︡kiĭ
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Wide Screen Cinema And Stereophonic Sound written by Mikhail Zinovʹevich Vysot︠s︡kiĭ and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with House & Home categories.
Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
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Author : STEVE NEALE
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-04-15
Contemporary Hollywood Cinema written by STEVE NEALE and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-15 with Social Science categories.
A comprehensive overview of the film industry in Hollywood today, Contemporary Hollywood Cinema brings together leading international cinema scholars to explore the technology, institutions, film makers and movies of contemporary American film making.
