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Belton, John

Belton, John

Widescreen Worldwide

  • "Widescreen Worldwide" by John Belton
  • Author(s): Belton, John
  • Publisher / Date: John Libbey Publishing, 2011
Examining widescreen cinema as a worldwide aesthetic and industrial phenomenon, the essays in this volume situate the individual expressions of this new technology within the larger cultural and industrial practices that inform them. What Hollywood sought to market globally as CinemaScope, SuperScope, Techniscope, Technirama, and Panavision took indigenous form in a host of compatible anamorphic formats developed around the world. The book documents how the aesthetics of the first wave of American widescreen films underwent revision in Europe and Asia as filmmakers brought their own idiolect to the language of widescreen mise-en-scène, editing, and sound practices. The work of Otto Preminger, Anthony Mann, Samuel Fuller, Sam Peckinpah, Seijun Suzuki, Kihachi Okamoto, and Tai Kato, among others, is addressed.

American Cinema American Culture

  • "American Cinema American Culture" by John Belton
  • Author(s): Belton, John
  • Publisher / Date: McGraw-Hill, 2004
Ideal for Introduction to American Cinema courses, American Film History courses, and Introductory Film Appreciation courses focused on American Film, this text offers a "cultural" examination of the American movie-making industry, with particular attention paid to the economic and aesthetic institution of Hollywood.

Widescreen Cinema

  • "Widescreen Cinema" by John Belton
  • Author(s): Belton, John
  • Publisher / Date: Harvard University Press, 1992

The history of American widescreen cinema, like the history of American cinema itself, begins with notions of novelty. Indeed, the popular reception of the widescreen revolution looks back to attitudes surrounding the invention of the cinema; both were considered to be short-lived phenomena of minor cultural or aesthetic significance. A new technology designed primarily for short-term amusement, the cinema remained a novelty until its technology no longer supplied the greater part on its amusement value.

Cinema Stylists

  • "Cinema Stylists" by John Belton
  • Author(s): Belton, John
  • Publisher / Date: Scarecrow Press, 1983
This collection of essays on visual style in the cinema examines the work 
of diverse directors and actors.

Review essay of Cinema Stylists by Jonathan Rosenbaum (Film Quarterly)

Robert Mitchum

  • "Robert Mitchum" by John Belton
  • Author(s): Belton, John
  • Publisher / Date: Pyramid Publications, 1976

A Pyramid illustrated history of the movies.