Playful Frames: Styles of Widescreen Cinema

by Steven Rybin

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978815948
• ISBN13: 9781978815940
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher