Widescreen Worldwide - Hardcover

Belton, John; Hall, Sheldon; Neale, Steven

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0861966945 ISBN 13: 9780861966943

Publisher: John Libbey Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

John Belton is Professor of English and Film at Rutgers University and author of Widescreen Cinema.

Sheldon Hall is Senior Lecturer in Stage and Screen at Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom.

Steven Neale is Professor of Film Studies at Exeter University.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Libbey Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0861966945
• ISBN 13: 9780861966943
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Edited By John Belton Sheldon Hall And Steven Neale