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book		Bazin at work : major essays and reviews from the forties and fifties / Andre Bazin ; translated from the French by Alain Piette and Bert Cardullo ; edited by Bert Cardullo New York: Routledge, 1996. Call No: 67(04) BAZ Author: Bazin, Andre, 1918-1958; Cardullo, Bert Place: New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1996 PhysDes: xvi, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: STALIN [J.] IN FILMS; RELIGIOUS FILMS; SPECIAL EFFECTS; SUPERNATURAL IN FILMS; CINEMASCOPE; MARXISM AND THE CINEMA; USSR; ADAPTATIONS; WYLER, WILLIAM; PAGNOL, MARCEL; CAYATTE, ANDRE; FARREBIQUE (FR, Georges Rouquier, 1945); SCARFACE (US, Howard Hawks, 1932); STRADA, LA (IT, Federico Fellini, 1954); JEUX INTERDITS (FR, Rene Clement, 1952); DERNIERES VACANCES, LES (FR, Roger Leenhardt, 1948); ORO DI NAPOLI, L' (IT, Vittorio De Sica, 1954); GOLD OF NAPLES (IT, Vittorio De Sica, 1954); M. RIPOIS (FR, Rene Clemont, 1954); DUE SOLDI DI SPERANZA (IT, Renato Castellani, 1951); TWO CENTS WORTH OF HOPE (IT, Renato Castellani, 1951); WHY WE FIGHT SERIES (US, 1942-44); BATAILLE DU RAIL, LA (FR, Rene Clemont, 1946); BATTLE OF THE RAILS (FR, Rene Clement, 1946); MYSTERE PICASSO, LE (FR, Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1956); PICASSO MYSTERY, THE (FR, Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1956); BIDONE, IL (IT, Federico Fellini, 1955); BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, THE (UK/US, David Lean, 1957); CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); IVAN GROZNY [IVAN THE TERRIBLE] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, pt.1:1945, pt.2:1958[prod.1946]); IVAN GROZNY KINO BALET (UR, Vadim Derbenev & Yuri Grigorovich, 1977) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0415900174 (hb); 0415900182 (pb) LON: 12242179 Contents: La Strada, p113-120 -- Jeux Interdits, p129-135 -- Les Dernieres Vacances, p141-149 -- M. Ripois, p167-177 -- Ivan Groznyj, p197-203 -- Le Mystere Picasso, p211-219 -- Citizen Kane, p231-239 More info
book		Film : a montage of theories N.Y.: Dutton, 1966. Call No: 62 MAC Author: MacCann, Richard Dyer Edition: 1st ed Place: N.Y. Publisher: Dutton PubDate: 1966 PhysDes: 384 p. : movie stills ; 18 cm Subject: THEORY; AESTHETICS; DOCUMENTARIES; CINEMASCOPE; NEOREALISM; PUDOVKIN, VSEVELOD; CLAIR, RENE; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; KNOX, ALEXANDER; NICHOLS, DUDLEY; BERGMAN, INGMAR; BALAZS, BELA; SENNETT, MACK; VORKAPICH, SLAVKO; RICHTER, HANS; Grierson, John; ZAVATTINI, CESARE; KRACAUER, SIEGFRIED; ROEMER, MICHAEL; BACHMANN, GIDEON; DREW, ROBERT; LEACOCK, RICHARD; PENNEBAKER, D. A.; DREYER, CARL TH.; VANDERBEEK, STAN; MEKAS, JONAS; KAEL, PAULINE; TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS; Fellini, Federico ISBN: 0525471812 LON: 21441213 More info
book		Future visions : new technologies of the screen / edited by Philip Hayward & Tana Wollen London: BFI Pub. Arts Council of Great Britain, 1993. Call No: 220"313" FUT Author: Hayward, Philip; Wollen, Tana, 1957 CorpAuthor: Arts Council of Great Britain Place: London Publisher: BFI Pub. Arts Council of Great Britain PubDate: 1993 PhysDes: xi, 212 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm Subject: TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENTS; IMAX; SPECIAL EFFECTS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HIGH DEFINITION TV; MULTIMEDIA; VIRTUAL REALITY; VIDEO GAMES; COMPUTERS AND THE CINEMA; CINEMASCOPE; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 085170400X (pbk.); 0851703844 LON: 10057800 More info
journal article		Serving Processes in Montage (September 1967) p.21-28 Author: White, Eric PhysDes: Article Subject: CINERAMA; CINEMASCOPE; WIDE-SCREEN SYSTEMS; CINEMAS; EXHIBITION; EXHIBITION. AUSTRALIA; EXHIBITION. USA; CINEMAS. USA; TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENTS; TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENTS. AUSTRALIA; TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENTS. USA; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA. USA Summary: Detailed history of the development of wide-screen systems for filming and exhibition of movies c1950s-. Includes disgrams showing how polarising filters work in 'Natural Vision'. More info
book		Widescreen worldwide / edited by John Belton, Sheldon Hall and Steve Neale New Barnet, U.K: John Libbey, c2010. Call No: 701 WID Author: Belton, John (ed.); Hall, Sheldon (ed.); Neale, Steve (ed.) Source: UK Place: New Barnet, U.K Publisher: John Libbey PubDate: c2010 PhysDes: viii, 236 p. : ill. ; 27 cm Subject: WIDE-SCREEN SYSTEMS; CINEMASCOPE; IMAX; PREMINGER, OTTO; Peckinpah, Sam; MANN, ANTHONY Summary: "The essays in this anthology provide a comprehensive portrait of widescreen cinema as an aesthetic and industrial phenomenon from the vantage point of twenty-first century film studies." - Book Blurb Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 9780861966943 Contents: -- Fox and 50mm film : John Belton -- Standing tall and wide: the selling of VistaVision : Tom Vincent -- IMAX: the Hollywood experience : Paul McDonald -- Cheap but wide: the stylistic exploitation of CinemaScope in black-and-white low-budget American films : Lisa Dombrowski -- Preminger and Peckinpah: seeing and shaping widescreen worlds : John Gibbs and Douglas Pye -- The art of the palpable: composition and staging in the widescreen films of Anthony Mann : Steve Neale -- Alternative versions in the early years of CinemaScope : Sheldon Hall -- Conspicuous consumption: the spectacle of widescreen comedy in the Populuxe era : Kathrina Glitre -- The scope of their ambition: British independent film production and the widescreen formats in the 1950s : Steve Chibnall -- Before Techniscope: the penetration of foreign widescreen technology in Italy, 1953-59 : Federico Vitella -- Widescreen composition and transnational influence: early anamorphic filmmaking in Japan : Eric Crosby -- Another Shaw production: anamorphic adventures in Hong Kong : David Bordwell -- More info

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