@inbook{98d49c74d96946649cd645670accf3f7,
title = "The Widescreen Anamorphic Lens",
abstract = "This article examines the transformative impact of anamorphic widescreen technology on film aesthetics, in two parts: first, I discuss how the affordances of early anamorphic widescreen technology (primarily CinemaScope) played a key role in standardizing widescreen formats in the Hollywood film industry during the 1950s. Following this brief historical contextualization, I argue that that besides its affordances, the initial limitations of this particular technology too have impacted film aesthetics. In the possession of later widescreen technologies, filmmakers responded to the limitations of early anamorphic formats by introducing or re-introducing stylistic and aesthetic techniques. ",
keywords = "Film Analysis, Film archive, widescreen, film theory, film history",
author = "Steven Willemsen",
year = "2016",
month = mar,
day = "11",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-90-8964-718-4 en 978-94-6298-316-8",
series = "Framing Film",
publisher = "Amsterdam University Press/EYE",
pages = "109--117",
editor = "Giovanna Fossati and \{van den Oever\}, Annie",
booktitle = "Exposing the Film Apparatus",
}