The Altering Eye: Contemporary International Cinema - cover image

Copyright

Robert Phillip Kolker

Published On

2009-01-01

ISBN

Paperback978-1-906924-03-4
Hardback978-1-906924-04-1
PDF978-1-906924-05-8
HTML978-1-80064-429-8

Language

  • English

Print Length

347 pages (xx + 327)

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 18 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.72" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 21 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.81" x 9.21")

Weight

Paperback1079g (38.06oz)
Hardback1465g (51.68oz)

Media

Illustrations51

OCLC Number

1086426124

LCCN

2019467304

BIC

  • APFA

BISAC

  • PER004030
  • PER004010

LCC

  • PN1995

Keywords

  • Cinema
  • film
  • movies
  • film studies
  • Jean-Luc Godard
  • Rainer Maria Fassbinder
  • Glauber Rocha
  • Joseph Losey
  • New German Cinema
  • European film

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.

Contents

  • Robert Phillip Kolker

The Substance of Form

(pp. 89–195)
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Introduction

(pp. 1–9)
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Contributors

Robert Phillip Kolker

(author)
Emeritus Professor of English at University of Maryland