Ouvrage plus facile d'accès, apparemment, que le récent LETTERBOBOXED, avec plus d'aspects techniques et l'impact sur l'écran. Publié aux éditions d'Indiana University Press.

table des matières
. Introduction
II. History, Technology and Innovation
1. John Belton, “Fox and 50mm Film”
2. Tom Vincent, “Standing Tall and Wide: The Selling of VistaVision”
3. Paul McDonald, “Hollywood: the IMAX Experience”
III. Textual Analysis, Aesthetics and Film
Form
5. Lisa Dombrowski, “Cheap but Wide: The Stylistic Exploitation of CinemaScope Aesthetics in Black-and White Low-Budget American Films”
6. John Gibbs and Douglas Pye, “Preminger and Peckinpah: Seeing and Shaping Widescreen Worlds”
7. Steve Neale, “The Art of the Palpable: Composition and Staging in the Widescreen Films of Anthony Mann”
IV. Themes and Formats
8. Sheldon Hall, “Alternative Versions in the Early Years of CinemaScope”
9. Kathrina Glitre, “Conspicuous Consumption: The Spectacle of Widescreen Comedy in the Populuxe Era”
V. Widescreen Worldwide
10. Steve Chibnall, “The Scope of Their Ambition: British Independent Film Production and Widescreen Formats in the 1950s”
11. Federico Vitella, “Before Techniscope: The Penetration of Foreign Widescreen Technology in Italy, 1953–59”
12. Eric Crosby, “Widescreen Composition and Transnational Influence: The Problem of Early Anamorphic Filmmaking in Japan”
13. David Bordwell, “Another Shaw Production: Anamorphic Adventures in Hong Kong”
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