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Autore |
Kovács András Bálint |
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Titolo |
Screening modernism [[electronic resource] ] : European art cinema, 1950-1980 / / András Bálint Kovács |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2007 |
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ISBN |
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0-226-45166-6 |
1-281-95731-3 |
9786611957315 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (441 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Motion pictures - Europe - History |
Modernism (Aesthetics) - Europe |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-[413]) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: What Is the Modern? -- Part Two: The Forms of Modernism -- Part Four: The Short Story of Modern Cinema (1959-1975) -- Appendix -- Selected Bibliography -- Index of Names and Movie Titles |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Casting fresh light on the renowned productions of auteurs like Antonioni, Fellini, and Bresson and drawing out from the shadows a range of important but lesser-known works, Screening Modernism is the first comprehensive study of European art cinema's postwar heyday. Spanning from the 1950's to the 1970's, András Bálint Kovács's encyclopedic work argues that cinematic modernism was not a unified movement with a handful of styles and themes but rather a stunning range of variations on the core principles of modern art. Illustrating how the concepts of modernism and the avant-garde variously manifest themselves in film, Kovács begins by tracing the emergence of art cinema as a historical category. He then explains the main formal characteristics of modern styles and forms as well as their intellectual foundation. Finally, drawing on modernist theory and philosophy along the way, he provides an innovative history of the evolution of modern European art cinema. Exploring not only modernism's origins but also |
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