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MARC Record from Library of Congress

Record ID marc_loc_updates/v39.i29.records.utf8:7501551:1175
Source Library of Congress
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LEADER: 01175cam a22002294a 4500
001 2010044908
003 DLC
005 20110714164419.0
008 101025s2011 kyua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2010044908
020 $a9780813126517 (alk. paper)
020 $a9780813126593 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aTR855$b.C67 2011
082 00 $a778.5/3$222
100 1 $aCossar, Harper.
245 10 $aLetterboxed :$bthe evolution of widescreen cinema /$cHarper Cossar.
260 $aLexington, KY :$bUniversity Press of Kentucky,$c2011.
300 $ax, 293 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: snakes and funerals -- D.W. Griffith, Buster Keaton, Abel Gance, and the precursors of widescreen aesthetics -- Big trail, the bat whispers, and the invention of widescreen style in 1930 -- Emerging stylistic norms in CinemaScope: genre and authorship in the films of Otto Preminger, Nicholas Ray, Frank Tashlin, and Douglas Sirk -- Experiments, 1968, and the fractured screen -- New media, digitextuality, and widescreen -- Conclusion.
650 0 $aWide-screen processes (Cinematography)$xHistory.