FIPR 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Bwana Devil, Cinemascope, Shallow Focus
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Mainstream cinema challenged by a ranged of dissidents, intellectuals and artists. Changing norms: western culture became sexualized, individual and fragmented. Mainstream films around the world at this time were also trying to speak about social change, "swollen melodramas" that commented on issues beyond their story. Acting for film takes a radical transformation and plunges into inner psychological layers. First widescreen film using cinemascope, after chretien"s process, and rectors experiments in 1897. ex. With widescreen & color, directors made longer shots, composed "washing line" set ups and shallow focus as color needed more light. ex. How to marry a millionaire by negulesco (1953) 3d- bwana devil- first feature length movie in 3d. Many us filmmakers embraced eisenhower era, embraced conventional, consumerist, optimistic picture of. Others could not ignore the changes and fractures to that society as cinema matured.
