The foreign film renaissance on American screens, 1946-1973 [electronic resource] / Tino Balio.
Balio, Tino.
2010
PN1995.9.F67 B35 2010eb
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Title The foreign film renaissance on American screens, 1946-1973 [electronic resource] / Tino Balio.
Author Balio, Tino.
ISBN 9780299247935 (electronic book)
9780299247942
Publication Details Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2010.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 367 p.) : ill.
Call Number PN1995.9.F67 B35 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.43/75
Summary "Largely shut out of American theaters since the 1920s, foreign films such as Open City, Bicycle Thief, Rashomon, The Seventh Seal, Breathless, La Dolce Vita and L'Avventura played after World War II in a growing number of art houses around the country and created a small but influential art film market devoted to the acquisition, distribution, and exhibition of foreign-language and English-language films produced abroad. Nurtured by successive waves of imports from Italy, Great Britain, France, Sweden, Japan, and the Soviet Bloc, the renaissance was kick-started by independent distributors working out of New York; by the 1960s, however, the market had been subsumed by Hollywood. From Roberto Rossellini's Open City in 1946 to Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris in 1973, Tino Balio tracks the critical reception in the press of such filmmakers as Franccois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Tony Richardson, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Luis Bunuel, Satyajit Ray, and Milos Forman. Their releases paled in comparison to Hollywood fare at the box office, but their impact on American film culture was enormous. The reception accorded to art house cinema attacked motion picture censorship, promoted the director as auteur, and celebrated film as an international art. Championing the cause was the new "cinephile" generation, which was mostly made up of college students under thirty. The fashion for foreign films depended in part on their frankness about sex. When Hollywood abolished the Production Code in the late 1960s, American-made films began to treat adult themes with maturity and candor. In this new environment, foreign films lost their cachet and the art film market went into decline"--P. 4 of cover.
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Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical reference (p. 343-345) and index.
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Series Wisconsin film studies.
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Antecedents
Italian neorealism
British film renaissance
Market dynamics
French films of the 1950s
Japanese films of the 1950s
Ingmar Bergman : the brand
The French New Wave
Angry young men : British new cinema
The second Italian renaissance
Auteurs from outside the epicenter
Enter Hollywood
The aura of the New York Film Festival
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