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Print Price: $89.99

Format:
Paperback
368 pp.
numerous halftones, 171 mm x 246 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199255719

Copyright Year:
2004

Imprint: OUP UK


European Cinema

New Edition

Edited by Elizabeth Ezra

European Cinema is the first book to provide overviews of key movements in European film history, from the inception of the medium in 1895 to the present.
This text includes accessible introductions to traditions as diverse as early Soviet cinema, German Expressionism, Surrealism, Italian Neoralism, the French New Wave, Ealing Comedy, East-Central European cinema, Contemporary Spanish cinema, and much more.
Top international scholars specially commissioned for this volume examine artistic developments in their industrial and more broadly historical context.
The book is divided chronologically into three sections, making it ideal for use in university film courses, and includes an invaluable glossary (comprising historical and foreign-language terms as well as technical terminology).

Readership : Undergraduate students in European Cinema and Film History courses.

Elizabeth Ezra: Introduction: A Brief History of Cinema in Europe
Part I: Early Cinema
Early Cinema: Introduction
1. Alison McMahan: Beginnings
2. Denise Youngblood: Soviet Cinema: The Old and the New
3. Anton Kaes: Weimar Cinema
4. Rudolf Kuenzli: Dada and Surrealist Film
5. Dudley Andrew: French Cinema of the 1930s
Part II: Postwar Cinema
Postwar Cinema: Introduction
6. Peter Bondanella: From Italian Neo-Realism to the Golden Age of Cinecittà
7. Peter Schepelern: Postwar Scandinavian Cinema
8. T. Jefferson Kline: The French New Wave
9. Sarah Street: From Ealing Comedy to the British New Wave
10. Thomas Elsaesser: New German Cinema
Part III: New Currents
New Currents: Introduction
11. Sue Harris: The Cinéma du Look
12. Gaetana Marrone: New Italian Cinema
13. Peter William Evans: Contemporary Spanish Cinema
14. Paul Coates: East-Central European Cinema
15. Martine Beugnet: French Cinema of the Margins
16. John Orr: New Directions in European Cinema
Glossary of Film Terms
Bibliography
Index

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Dr Elizabeth Ezra is a Lecturer in European Film and Media at the University of Stirling. She took her PhD at Cornell University in 1992.
Her previous publications include Georges Méliès: The Birth of the Auteur (Manchester University Press, 2000), The Colonial Unconscious: Race and Culture in Interwar France (Cornell University Press, 2000).
and co-edited with Sue Harris France in Focus: Film and National Identity (Bergman, 2001).

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Special Features

  • A broad historical scope: spans from beginnings of cinema in 1895 to the present, from the Lumière Brothers to Pedro Almodóvar.
  • Provides overviews of key movements and traditions in film history, combining artistic analysis with considerable attention to industrial (and more broadly historical) context
  • Includes Glossary of film terms that comprises foreign-language and historical entries as well as technical terminology
  • Authoritative information and analysis provided by an international team of experts who are at the top of their fields
  • Truly outstanding line-up of contributors from the US, UK and Europe including: Dudley Andrew (French Cinema of the 1930s); Anton Kaes (Weimar Cinema): Sarah Street (British Cinema); Peter Bondanella (Itlalian Neo-Realism); Thomas Elsaesser (New German Cinema)