Widescreen Worldwide

by Sheldon Hall, Steven Neale, John Belton

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0861966945
• ISBN13: 9780861966943
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: John Libbey & Company
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.0" x 10.3"