"The term "art cinema" has been applied to many cinematic projects, including the film d'art movement, the postwar avant-gardes, various Asian new waves, the New Hollywood, and American indie films, but until now no one has actually defined what "art cinema" is. Turning the trad…
He term "art cinema" has been applied to many cinematic projects, including the film d'art movement, the postwar avant-gardes, various Asian new waves, the New Hollywood, and American indie films, but until now no one has actually defined what "art cinema" is. Turning the tradit…
This book provides the first detailed analysis of the work of four important contemporary directors whose work falls between the reductive labels of 'auteur cinema' and 'popular cinema'. Their work is contextualised within this timely investigation into the shifting relationship…
This volume contains profile-style essays on five of the most popular or controversial directors - Olivier Assayas, Jacques Audiard, the Dardenne brothers, Michael Haneke and François Ozon.
This volume contains profile-style essays on five of the most popular or controversial directors - Olivier Assayas, Jacques Audiard, the Dardenne brothers, Michael Haneke and François Ozon.
For many countries, the 1960s saw a new wave of filmmaking. This volume offers a survey of the innovative filmmaking of the 1960s, placing it in its political, economic, cultural and aesthetic context.
"Body Double explores the myriad ways that film artists have represented the creative process. In this highly innovative work, Lucy Fischer draws on a neglected element of auteur studies to show that filmmakers frequently raise questions about the paradoxes of authorship by port…
A Cinema of Poetry brings Italian film studies into dialogue with fields outside its usual purview by showing how films can contribute to our understanding of aesthetic questions that stretch back to Homer. Joseph Luzzi considers the relationship between film and literature, suc…