TY  - GEN
T1  - Playful frames : styles of widescreen cinema
T2  - Techniques of the Moving Image Series.
A1  - Rybin, Steven, 1979-
LA  - English
PP  - New Brunswick
PB  - Rutgers University Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1407252609
AB  - "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"--
OP  - 198
CN  - TR855 .R93 2023
SN  - 9781978815988
SN  - 1978815980
SN  - 9781978815957
SN  - 1978815956
SN  - 9781978815940
SN  - 1978815948
KW  - Wide-screen processes (Cinematography) : Case studies.
KW  - Motion picture producers and directors : United States : Case studies.
KW  - Panoramique (Cinéma) : Études de cas.
KW  - Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma : États-Unis : Études de cas.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / General
KW  - Motion picture producers and directors.
KW  - Wide-screen processes (Cinematography)
KW  - United States.
KW  - Case studies.
ER  -