The Altering Eye. Contemporary International Cinema
The Altering Eye covers a “golden age” of international cinema
from the end of WWII through to the New German Cinema of the 1970s. Combining
historical, political, and textual analysis, the author develops a pattern of
cinematic invention and experimentation from neorealism through the modernist
interventions of Jean-Luc Godard and Rainer Maria Fassbinder, focusing along
the way on such major figures as Luis Buñuel, Joseph Losey, the Brazilian
director Glauber Rocha, and the work of major Cuban filmmakers.
Kolker’s book has become a much quoted classic in the field of film
studies providing essential reading for anybody interested in understanding the
history of European and international cinema. This new and revised edition
includes a substantive new Preface by the author and an updated Bibliography.
Contents:
New Preface; Introduction; 1. The Validity of the Image; 2. The
Substance of Form; 3. Politics, Psychology, and Memory; Notes; Annotated
Bibliography; Selected Bibliography on European Cinema Since 1983; Index.
No. of pages: 348.
Robert Kolker is Emeritus Professor
of English at the University of Maryland
and Lecturer in Media Studies at the University
of Virginia. His work include A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Stone,
Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman; Bernardo Bertolucci; Wim Wenders
(with Peter Beicken); Film, Form and
Culture; Media Studies: An
Introduction; editor of Alfred
Hitchcock’s Psycho: A Casebook; Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey: New
Essays and The Oxford Handbook of
Film and Media Studies.
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