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Playful Frames - Styles of Widescreen Cinema
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Playful Frames - Styles of Widescreen Cinema
Series: Techniques of the Moving Image
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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.Â
General
Imprint: |
Rutgers University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Techniques of the Moving Image |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
First published: |
2024 |
Authors: |
Steven Rybin
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
198 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-978815-94-0 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-978815-94-8 |
Barcode: |
9781978815940 |
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