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Description for European Cinema
Paperback. Provides overviews of key movements in European film history, since the inception of the medium. This book includes 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 more. Editor(s): Ezra, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 368 pages, numerous halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; APF; HBT. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 171 x 246 x 15. Weight in Grams: 698.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Weight
697g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199255719
SKU
V9780199255719
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Ref
99-16
About Ezra
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 ... Read more
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