European Cinema
Author(s): Elizabeth Ezra (Editor)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: February 12, 2004
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 368 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780199255719
- ISBN-13: 9780199255719
Book Description
European Cinema is the first book to provide overviews of key movements in European film history, from the inception of the medium in 1895 to the present. The book includes accessible introductions to traditions as diverse as early Soviet cinema, German Expressionism, Surrealism, Italian Neorealism, the French New Wave, Ealing Comedy, East-Central European cinema, Contemporary Spanish cinema, and much more.
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
An outstanding line-up of contributors provides overviews of key movements and traditions in European film history from 1895 to the present
About the Author
Dr Elizabeth Ezra is a Lecturer in European Film and Media at the University of Stirling. She took her PhD at Cornell University in 1992.
Her previous publications include Georges Méliès: The Birth of the Auteur (Manchester University Press, 2000), The Colonial Unconscious: Race and Culture in Interwar France (Cornell University Press, 2000).
and co-edited with Sue Harris France in Focus: Film and National Identity (Bergman, 2001).
Her previous publications include Georges Méliès: The Birth of the Auteur (Manchester University Press, 2000), The Colonial Unconscious: Race and Culture in Interwar France (Cornell University Press, 2000).
and co-edited with Sue Harris France in Focus: Film and National Identity (Bergman, 2001).