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Author: Harper Cossar
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Imprint: The University Press of Kentucky
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.602kg
ISBN: 9780813126517
ISBN 10: 0813126517
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 14 January 2011
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of print, replaced by POD
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Reviews
--a fine survey of the history of widescreen technology and applications... a 'must' for any serious film collection.- -- The Midewest Book Review- --
<p> Cossar provides a new tool for examine the ever-evolving art of filmmaking as well as a window to understanding the changes that are taking place today as televisions undergo a similiar change in format. --Tuscan Citizen --
<p> Cossar offers a meticulously researched, well-organized, and far-ranging analysis of the impact of widescreen aesthetics on cinematic technique.... An important resource for those seeking to expand their understanding of how the shape of the frame impacts the storytelling within it. --Choice --
Cossar offers a meticulously researched, well-organized, and far-ranging analysis of the impact of widescreen aesthetics on cinematic technique.... An important resource for those seeking to expand their understanding of how the shape of the frame impacts the storytelling within it. --Choice -- Letterboxed traces recurring technological problems and aesthetic solutions across a wide swath of film history. --David Bordwell -- Cossar provides a new tool for examine the ever-evolving art of filmmaking as well as a window to understanding the changes that are taking place today as televisions undergo a similiar change in format. -- Tuscan Citizen -- Complementing the work of John Belton and David Bordwell, this excellent book provides a detailed and insightful account of widescreen technology, widescreen aesthetics, and widescreen cinema history in the United States. --Stephen Neale, Film Studies, Exeter University -- Cossar significantly intervenes in our scholarly understanding of the aesthetics of widescreen cinema by considering them in relation to both auteurism and genre. -- Derek Johnson, assistant professor in the Department of Radio, Television, and Film, University of North Texas -- a fine survey of the history of widescreen technology and applications... a 'must' for any serious film collection. -- The Midewest Book Review --
Author Information
Harper Cossar teaches media studies in Atlanta. His publications have appeared in Journal of Film and Video, Flow, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Journal of New Media and Culture, and Film and History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies, as well as the anthologies All-Stars and Movie Stars: Sports in Film and History and Convergence Media History.
