Joe McElhaney is an assistant professor of film studies at Hunter College/City University of New York. He is the author of The Death of Classical Cinema: Hitchcock, Lang, Minnelli and the forthcoming Albert Maysles, and, as editor, Vincente Minnelli: The Art of Entertainment.
All the colors of darkness When Cinemascope was introduced, Jacques Rivette and Eric Rohmer hailed the process in the pages of Cahiers du Cinema. Rivette argued that Cinemascope freed the[…]
