European cinema / edited by Elizabeth Ezra. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2004. - x, 344 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-335) and index.

Beginnings / Soviet cinema: the old and the new / Weimar cinema: the predicament of modernity / Dada and surrealist film / French cinema in the 1930s / From Italian neorealism to the golden age of cinecittáa / Postwar Scandinavian cinema / The French new wave / From Ealing comedy to the British new wave / The new German cinema / The Cinema du look / The new Italian cinema / Contemporary Spanish cinema / East-Central European cinema: beyond the Iron Curtain / French cinema of the margins / New directions in European cinema / Alison McMahan -- Denise J. Youngblood -- Anton Kaes -- Rudolf Kuenzli -- Dudley Andrew -- Peter Bondanella -- Peter Schlepelern -- T. Jefferson Kline -- Sarah Street -- Thomas Elsaesser -- Sue Harris -- Gaetana Marrone -- Peter William Evans -- Paul Coates -- Martine Beugnot -- John Orr.

"This new book is the first to provide overviews of the key movements in European cinema since the creation of the medium in 1895. An outstanding array of authors have contributed their expertise to make this book essential reading for all film students and enthusiasts. The whole book is brought together into three clearly-defined sections representing major periods in the history of cinema, with a helpful introductory chapter by the editor, Elizabeth Ezra."--BOOK JACKET.

0199255717 9780199255719

2004298709

GBA3-V3371


Motion pictures--History.--Europe
Cine--Historia--Europa--1939-1990.
Cine--Puesta en escena y escenografía--Europa.
Cine--Argumentos, tramas, etc.

PN 1993.5 / E99e 2004

791.43