Widescreen Cinema

John Belton

    Introduction: Writing History Backward

    1. The Shape of Things to Come

    2. From Novelty to Norm

    3. Wide Film and the General Audience

    4. The Leisured Masses

    5. Cinerama: A New Era in the Cinema

    6. CinemaScope: A Poor Man's Cinerama

    7. The Development of CinemaSeope

    8. Todd-AO: The Hallmark of Quality

    9. Spectator and Screen

    10. The Shape of Money

  • Cover: Widescreen Cinema

John Belton, Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University, is widely admired in film studies for his work with the National Film Preservation Board. He is the coeditor of Film Sound: Theory and Practice and the author of Cinema Stylists and The Films of Robert Mitchum.