Posted: December 27th, 2014

Discuss the impact of widescreen on Hollywood cinema in the 1950s, illustrating your argument by reference to the ways in which at least two films employ these

Discuss the impact of widescreen on Hollywood cinema in the 1950s, illustrating your argument by reference to the ways in which at least two films employ these

formats.

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Please watch the film ‘Rebel without a cause’ and choose one of the following.
No Way Out (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)

The Man With the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger, 1955)

A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan, 1957)

Twelve Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)

Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959)

Please discuss at least 2 films.
Our focus here will primarily be the impact of these new techniques – including the rollout of colour photography, widescreen, 3-D, stereo and multitrack sound – on

film style. It will be emphasised that changes in technologies of film production and exhibition can and should be understood as simultaneously technical, economic and

aesthetic issues.

Supplementary Bibliography
Belton, J. (1992a) Widescreen Cinema, Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard UP. 791.43 BEL
—. (1992b) “1950s Magnetic Sound: The Frozen Revolution,” in Altman, R. (ed.). Sound Theory/Sound Practice, New York: Routledge, pp. 154-167. 791.43 SOU
Belton, J. (ed.) (2003) Film History Special Issue: Widescreen Vol. 15, 1. Founders Journals F
Bernstein, M. (ed.) (1985) The Velvet Light Trap Special Issue: American Widescreen Vol. 21 (Summer).
Cohen, L. (1998) “The Horizontal Walk: Marilyn Monroe, CinemaScope, and Sexuality”, Yale Journal of Criticism 11.1, pp. 259-288. Available through SFX
Cook, D. A. (2004) A History of Narrative Film, 4th ed., New York: Norton, pp. 387-406. 791.4309 COO
Neale, S. (1985) Cinema and Technology: Image, Sound, Colour, London: Macmillan. 778.53 NEA
Barry Langford Post-Classical Hollywood, pp. 73-95.

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