The Contemporary Cinema

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The cinéma is uniquely of the twentieth century - an art which has earned its piacé álongside the növel and the theatre, but which is alsó a great international industry, tied to the ecónomic iaws of supply and demand. Of the totál history of the cinéma one quarter belongs to the years since the war. The Contemporary Cinéma thus ranges from neo-realism to the new wave, from On the Town to five years of South Pacific, from the Gainsborough Lady to This Sporting Life; and the directors include not only Antonioni, Truffaud, and Anderson, but alsó Renoir, Bunuel, and de Sica, not only Ford, Hitchcock, and Hawkes, but alsó Kubrick, Ray, and Cassavetes* In a sustained, imaginative survey of the whole post-war scene, Penelope Houston shows how the cinéma has adjusted itself to meet a new audience which approaches films more critically than before, but in doing so encourages new talent. At the same time she makes clear the industrial problems (in particular, the fight to co-exist with TV)... Tovább

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The cinéma is uniquely of the twentieth century - an art which has earned its piacé álongside the növel and the theatre, but which is alsó a great international industry, tied to the ecónomic iaws of supply and demand. Of the totál history of the cinéma one quarter belongs to the years since the war. The Contemporary Cinéma thus ranges from neo-realism to the new wave, from On the Town to five years of South Pacific, from the Gainsborough Lady to This Sporting Life; and the directors include not only Antonioni, Truffaud, and Anderson, but alsó Renoir, Bunuel, and de Sica, not only Ford, Hitchcock, and Hawkes, but alsó Kubrick, Ray, and Cassavetes* In a sustained, imaginative survey of the whole post-war scene, Penelope Houston shows how the cinéma has adjusted itself to meet a new audience which approaches films more critically than before, but in doing so encourages new talent. At the same time she makes clear the industrial problems (in particular, the fight to co-exist with TV) which are inseparable from the business of making, distributing, and promoting a very expensive product to a highly unreliable markét. The individual talent, the business decision, the screen* and the audience are all placed firmly in perspective by the Editor of Sight and Sound. This is what the cinéma since the war looks like in 19S3. The book is iilustrated with over 30 plates and a check-list of fílms provides a guide to more than one hundred directors. Vissza