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, Kolker 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.

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Title: The Altering Eye
Subtitle: Contemporary International Cinema
Author: Kolker, Robert Phillip
Publication date: January 2009
Number of pages: xviii + 326
Dimensions: 6.14” x 9.21” | 234mm x 156mm
Illustrations: 51 black and white
BIC Subject Codes: APFA (Film theory & criticism)

 

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

Robert Kolker is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Maryland and Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Virginia. His works include A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Stone, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman; Bernardo Bertolucci; Wim Wenders (with Peter Beicken); Film, Form and Culture; and Media Studies: An Introduction. He is 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.