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At a time when movie reviews have degenerated into mere publicity and film scholarship has become entangled in pedantic discourse, close readings of major directing careers and significant films are a needed alternative. In European Directors and Their Films: Essays on Cinema , Bert Cardullo analyzes of some of the most important film artists and individual films of the last several decades. Beyond simple biographical capsules and plot summaries, these readings demonstrate with elegance and clarity what cinema means as well as what it shows, explaining how international moviemakers use the resources of the medium to pursue complex, significant human goals. In this volume Cardullo offers fresh perspectives on some of the established greats of European cinema—including Vittorio De Sica ( Shoeshine, Bicycle Thieves, Umberto D. ), Federico Fellini ( I Vitelloni, La Strada, Nights of Cabiria ), Jean Renoir ( Grand Illusion, The Rules of the Game ), Robert Bresson ( L’Argent ), Jacques Tati ( Mr. Hulot’s Holiday ), Ingmar Bergman ( Winter Light, Autumn Sonata ), Eric Rohmer ( A Tale of Winter ), and Roman Polanski ( The Pianist )—as well as insights into vital work by

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Author

Bert Cardullo

Publisher

Scarecrow Press, Incorporated

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780810885271

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Performing Arts, History, Sports