Playful Frames - Styles of Widescreen Cinema

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.

Sommario

Introduction: A Scope Quartet
1 Jean Negulesco (1900-1993): CinemaScope Connoisseur
2 Blake Edwards (1922-2010): Panavision Pyrotechnics
3 Robert Altman (1925-2006): Diffusive Widescreen
4 John Carpenter (1948–): Anamorphic Haunting
Acknowledgments
Works Cited
Index

Info autore

STEVEN RYBIN is an associate professor of film studies at Minnesota State University, Mankato. His books as author include Shots to the Heart: For the Love of Film Performance, Geraldine Chaplin: The Gift of Film Performance, and Gestures of Love: Romancing Performance in Classical Hollywood Cinema.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Steven Rybin
• Editore: Rutgers University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 20.11.2023
• EAN: 9781978815957
• ISBN: 978-1-978815-95-7
• Pagine: 198
• Serie: Techniques of the Moving Image
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Teatro, balletto