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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455135403321

Autore

Betz Mark

Titolo

Beyond the subtitle [[electronic resource] ] : remapping European art cinema / / Mark Betz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8166-6778-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (362 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/0940904

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Europe - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Recovering European art cinema -- The name above the subtitle: language, coproduction, transnationalism -- Wandering women: decolonization, modernity, recolonization -- Exquisite corpses: art cinema, film studies, and the omnibus film.

Sommario/riassunto

A provocative rethinking of national cinema, authorship, and the discipline of film studies.Examining European art films of the 1950's and 1960's, Mark Betz argues that it is time for film analysis to move beyond prevailing New Wave historiography, mired in outdated notions of nationalism and dragged down by decades of auteurist criticism. Focusing on the cinemas of France and Italy, Betz reveals how the flowering of European art films in the postwar era is inseparable from the complex historical and political frameworks of the time.Remapping the practices and paradigms of film history, Beyond