Cahiers du Cinéma, The 1950s: Neo-Realism, Hollywood, New Wave (Harvard Film Studies) (v. 1) by Jim Hillier
Cahiers du Cinéma, The 1950s: Neo-Realism, Hollywood, New Wave (Harvard Film Studies) (v. 1) by Jim Hillier
Publisher: Harvard University Press (June 1, 1985) | ISBN: 0674090608 | Pages: 328 | PDF | 9.41 MB
Publisher: Harvard University Press (June 1, 1985) | ISBN: 0674090608 | Pages: 328 | PDF | 9.41 MB
The selections in this volume are drawn from the colorful first decade of Cahiers, 1951-1959, when a group of young iconoclasts racked the world of film criticism with their provocative views an international cinema–American, Italian, and French in particular. They challenged long-established Anglo-Saxon attitudes by championing American popular movies, addressing genres such as the Western and the thriller and the aesthetics of technological developments like CinemaScope, emphasizing mise en scéne as much as thematic content, and assessing the work of individual filmmakers such as Hawks, Hitchcock, and Nicholas Ray in terms of a new theory of the director as author, auteur, a revolutionary concept at the time. Italian film, especially the work of Rossellini, prompted sharp debates about realism that helped shift the focus of critical discussion from content toward style. The critiques of French cinema have special interest because many of the journal's major contributors and theorists Godard, Truffaut, Rohmer, Rivette, Chabrol were to become same of France's most important film directors and leaders of the New Wave.
Cahiers du Cinéma, The 1950s: Neo-Realism, Hollywood, New Wave (Harvard Film Studies) (v. 1) by Jim Hillier
