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"Smothered in Baked Alaska": The Anxious Appeal of Widescreen Cinema
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- Volume 51, Number 3, Spring 2012
- pp. 74-96
- 10.1353/cj.2012.0058
- Article
- Additional Information
This article examines how public discourse portrayed the appeal of widescreen cinema in the mid-1950s. Tracing this appeal to Cinerama's and CinemaScope's purported effects on the human body, the article contends that these systems promised to align viewers with a powerful apparatus while also threatening to submit them to it.