European Cinema / Edition 2

by Elizabeth Ezra

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199255719
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/12/2004
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	9.80(w) x 6.48(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

PrefaceParrt I: Early Cinema: IntroductionEarly Cinema: Introduction, Elizabeth Ezra1. Beginnings, Alsion McMahan2. Soviet Cinema: The Old and the New, Denise Youngblood3. Weimar Cinema, Anton Kaes4. Dada and Surrealist Film, Rudolf Kuenzli5. French Cinema of the 1930s, Dudley AndrewPart II: Post War CinemaPost War Cinema: Introduction, Elizabeth Ezra6. From Italian Neo-Realism to the Golden Age of Cinecittà, Peter Bondanella7. Post-War Scandinavian Cinema, Peter Schepelern8. The French New Wave, T. Jefferson Kline9. From Ealing Comedy to the British New Wave, Sarah Street10. New German Cinema, Thomas ElsaesserPart III: New CurrentsNew Currents: Introduction, Elizabeth Ezra11. The Cinéma du Look, Sue Harris12. New Italian Cinema, Gaetana Marrone13. Contemporary Spanish Cinema, Peter William Evans14. East-Central European Cinema, Paul Coates15. French Cinema of the Margins, Martine Beugnet16. New Directions in European Cinema, John OrrGlossary of Film TermsBibliographyIndex