European art cinema / / John White

• Autore: White John <1956->
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (299 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 791.43094
• Soggetto topico: Motion pictures - Europe - History
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Outlining the theoretical landscape -- Defining 'art' -- Film as art -- Defining 'art cinema' -- Art cinema and genre -- Defining 'Europe' -- 3 A brief historical overview of European art cinema -- Film art in Europe before the First World War -- Soviet cinema after the Russian Revolution -- German cinema after the First World War -- Avant-garde cinema in France in the 1920s -- French cinema in the 1930s -- Italian Neorealism after the Second World War -- The French New Wave of the late 1950s and early 1960s -- The British New Wave of the late 1950s and early 1960s -- New German cinema -- Developments in European art cinema post-1989 -- 4 Key critical approaches to European art cinema -- Art cinema and semiotic analysis -- Art cinema and auteur theory -- 5 Key thematic approaches to European art cinema -- Art cinema and Christian religious belief -- Art cinema and Existentialism -- Art cinema and the presence of evil in the world -- 6 Political aspects of European art cinema -- Art cinema and social critique -- Art cinema and social realism -- Art cinema and political commitment -- 7 European art cinema and experimental film -- 8 European art cinema and Hollywood -- 9 Case studies -- Das Cabinet Des Dr Caligari/The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari (1920, Weimar Republic) -- Zemlya/.Earth (1930, Soviet Union) -- Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent soufflé où il veut/A Man Escaped (1956, France) -- Hiroshima mon amour (1959, France) -- Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes/Aguirre, Wrath Of God (1972, West Germany) -- Comrades (1986, UK) -- Le Quattro Volte (2010, Italy/Germany/Switzerland) -- Silence (2012, Ireland/UK) -- 10 Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Outlining the theoretical landscape. ; Chapter 3: A brief historical overview of European art cinema -- Chapter 4: Key critical approaches to European art cinema -- Chapter 5: Key thematic approaches to European art cinema -- Chapter 6: Political aspects of European art cinema -- Chapter 7: European art cinema and experimental film -- Chapter 8: European art cinema and Hollywood -- Chapter 9: Case studies -- Bibliography -- Suggestions for further reading -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: European art cinema
• ISBN: 1-315-73789-2; 1-317-57206-8; 1-317-57205-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910136123203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge film guidebooks.