Beyond the Subtitle

Beyond the Subtitle
Author: Mark Betz
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2009
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0816640351

Examining European art films of the 1950s and 1960s, Mark Betz argues that it istime for film analysis to move beyond prevailing New Wave historiography, mired in outdated notions of nationalism and dragged down by decades of auteurist criticism. Focusing on the cinemas of France and Italy, Betz reveals how the flowering of European art films in the postwar era is inseparable from the complex historical and political frameworks of the time.

Museum Movies

Museum Movies
Author: Haidee Wasson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2005-05-27
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0520241312

In 1935, the foundation of the Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art in New York marked the transformation of the film medium from a passing amusement to an enduring art form. Haidee Wasson maps the work of the MoMA film library as it pioneered the preservation of film & promoted the concept of art cinema.

The Euro-American Cinema

The Euro-American Cinema
Author: Peter Lev
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 189
Release: 1993-08-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0292746784

This book will engage all those interested in the history and aesthetics of world cinema, as well as anyone concerned with cultural change in late twentieth-century Western Europe and the United States.

Sure Seaters

Sure Seaters
Author: Barbara Wilinsky
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780816635634

By the end of the Second World War, a growing segment of the American filmgoing public was wearying of mainstream Hollywood films and began to seek out something different. In major cities and college towns across the country, art film theaters provided a venue for alternatives to the films playing in main-street movie palaces: British, foreign-language, and independent American films, as well as documentaries and revivals of Hollywood classics. A skeptical film industry dubbed such cinemas "sure seaters," convinced that patrons would have no trouble finding seats there. However, with the success of art films like Rossellini's Open City and Mackendrick's Tight Little Island, the meaning of the term "sure seater" changed and, by the end of the 1940s, reflected the frequency with which art house cinemas filled all their seats. Wilinsky examines the development of the theaters that introduced such challenging, personal, and artistic films as The Bicycle Thief and The Red Shoes to American audiences, and offers a more complete understanding of postwar popular culture and the often complicated relationship between art cinema and the commercial film industry that ultimately shaped both and resulted in today's vibrant film culture. -- from back cover.

Post-war Cinema and Modernity

Post-war Cinema and Modernity
Author: John Orr
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2001-03
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780814762028

Both professors at the U. of Edinburgh (Scotland), Orr (sociology) and Taxidou (English) have collected a diverse selection of previously published material on film, much of it controversial and challenging, to produce a reader for the undergraduate classroom. The readings are divided into theory and form, form and process, and international cinema. The selected authors (who include such thinkers and directors as Andre Bazin, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Gilles Deleuze, Fredric Jameson, Paul Virilio, Duncan Petrie, Susan Sontag, and Laura Mulvey) mull questions of film and modernity, film and poetry, film and postmodernity, cinematic perception, changing film technology, and the social and national context of international films. c. Book News Inc.

The New European Cinema

The New European Cinema
Author: Rosalind Galt
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231137171

Rosalind Galt offers innovative readings of some of the most popular and influential European films of the 1990s, including Emir Kusturica's 'Underground', Lars Von Trier's 'Zentropa', and Giuseppe Tornatore's 'Cinema Paradiso'.

The European Cinema Reader

The European Cinema Reader
Author: Catherine Fowler
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780415240918

This comprehensive introduction to national cinemas in Europe brings together classic writings by key filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein, Luis Buñuel and John Grierson, and critics from Andre Bazin to Peter Wollen.

The Crisis of Political Modernism

The Crisis of Political Modernism
Author: D. N. Rodowick
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 1994
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0520087712

"Gives a superb critical and polemical overview of the '70s film theory. Rodowick is particularly good at showing both the political stakes of these influential theories and their blind spots."—Constance Penley, University of California, Santa Barbara