Screening modernism : European art cinema, 1950-1980 / Andras Balint Kovacs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kovács, András Bálint.

Series:

Cinema and modernity.

Cinema and modernity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Europe--History.

Motion pictures.

Modernism (Aesthetics)--Europe.

Modernism (Aesthetics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (441 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 its stylistic, thematic, and cultural avatars, Screening Modernism ultimately lays out creative new ways to think about the historical periods that comprise this golden age of film.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-[413]) and index.

ISBN:

9786611957315

9780226451664

0226451666

9781281957313

1281957313

OCLC:

476229096