
Published online:
14 September 2011
Published in print:
13 December 2010
Online ISBN:
9780813135618
Print ISBN:
9780813126517
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River of No Return (1954) River of No Return (1954)
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Bigger than Life (1956) Bigger than Life (1956)
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The Girl Can’t Help It (1956) The Girl Can’t Help It (1956)
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The Tarnished Angels (1958) The Tarnished Angels (1958)
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Chapter
3 Emerging Stylistic Norms in CinemaScope: Genre and Authorship in the Films of Otto Preminger, Nicholas Ray, Frank Tashlin, and Douglas Sirk
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95–184
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Published:December 2010
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Cossar, Harper, 'Emerging Stylistic Norms in CinemaScope: Genre and Authorship in the Films of Otto Preminger, Nicholas Ray, Frank Tashlin, and Douglas Sirk', Letterboxed: The Evolution of Widescreen Cinema (Lexington, KY , 2010; online edn, Kentucky Scholarship Online, 14 Sept. 2011), https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813126517.003.0004, accessed 27 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter examines the auteurist films of the 1950s and determines what norms emerged in light of the new aesthetic challenges that widescreen presented. The 20th Century Fox debuted CinemaScope in 1953, and a new era of filmmaking and exhibition practices was born. The focus here was on adaptive aesthetics within film style. The chapter examines four influential auteurs—Preminger, Ray, Tashlin, and Sirk—and how they experiment with widescreen aesthetics in terms of close-ups, landscapes, camera angles, and movement. It discusses the use of such mechanics in opening sequences, interior conversation setups, outdoor vistas, and with complex camera movements.
Keywords:
Academy ratio, widescreen aesthetics, 20th Century Fox, camera angles, opening sequences, interior conversation setups
Subject
Film
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