Kolker, Robert Phillip,

The altering eye contemporary international cinema / [electronic resource] : Robert Phillip Kolker. - Revised edition, with a new preface and an updated bibliography. - 1 online resource (xviii, 326 pages) : illustrations.

"First edition published in 1983 by Oxford University Press"--Verso of t.p. Available through Open Book Publishers.

Includes bibliography (pages 299-313) and index.

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.

Open access resource providing free access.

"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."--Publisher's website.


Mode of access: World Wide Web.


The Altering Eye is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. For more detailed information consult the publisher's website.

9781906924058


Motion picture plays--History and criticism.
Motion pictures--Philosophy.