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. The book includes accessible introductions to traditions as diverse as early Soviet cinema, German Expressionism, Surrealism, Italian Neorealism, the French New Wave, Ealing Comedy, East-Central European cinema, Contemporary Spanish cinema, and much more.
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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 M�li�s: 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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impressive sweep, but can't cover subjects in depth,
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The book really only exists as a lead into its subject. The vast differences in the national trends all over Europe since films first arose causes this. Nonetheless, you might get a good top level appreciation of, say, Soviet film making, from 1920 to the end of the Soviet Union. Or of the films of Weimar Germany. Space considerations restrict those 2 examples to one chapter each. Fans obviously will want more detailed texts. But the sweep of the book is impressive.
The one big omission is a study of films made in Nazi Germany. There are chapters on German film making before (as mentioned above) and after those years. Probably because Nazi films are a uniquely pathological case, even more so than Soviet films, and might have made an awkward fit with the rest of the book.
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Film history is characterized by certain grand narratives. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cinema italiano, auteur cinema, trick films, early cinema, national cinema, cents coups, women filmmakers, cinema attendance, nouvelle vague, striped box, realist films Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War, New York, Man Ray, United States, British Film Institute, The Fifth Element, Italian Neorealism, Les Amants du Pont-neuf, Poetic Realism, Jean Renoir, Liv Ullmann, West Germany, Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, North African, Oxford University Press, University of California Press, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Alice Guy, Fritz Lang, Les Glaneurs, Lev Kuleshov, Popular Front, The Blue Angel, Hamburg Declaration New!
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Film history is characterized by certain grand narratives. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cinema italiano, auteur cinema, trick films, early cinema, national cinema, cents coups, women filmmakers, cinema attendance, nouvelle vague, striped box, realist films Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War, New York, Man Ray, United States, British Film Institute, The Fifth Element, Italian Neorealism, Les Amants du Pont-neuf, Poetic Realism, Jean Renoir, Liv Ullmann, West Germany, Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, North African, Oxford University Press, University of California Press, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Alice Guy, Fritz Lang, Les Glaneurs, Lev Kuleshov, Popular Front, The Blue Angel, Hamburg Declaration New!
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- Federico Fellini: Essays in Criticism by Peter E. Bondanella on 4 pages
- Dada and Surrealist Film by Rudolf E. Kuenzli on 4 pages
- The British Film Institute: [Hc]: [1993-94]: House of Commons Papers: [1993-94] by Great Britain on 4 pages
- Jean Renoir (Quality Paperbacks Series) by Andre Bazin on 4 pages
- Marriage Scenarios by Ingmar Bergman on page 153, page 154, and page 155
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- Proust at the Movies (Studies in European Cultural Transition) by Martine Beugnet on page 230, and Back Matter
- Transnational Cinema, The Film Reader (In Focus: Routledge Film Readers) by Elizabeth Ezra in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- European Film Music (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music) (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music) by Miguel Mera in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Modern French Culture (Cambridge Companions to Culture) by Nicholas Hewitt on page 337
- The Colonial Unconscious: Race and Culture in Interwar France by Elizabeth Ezra in Back Matter
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