Contemporary Cinema
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: April 15, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780748608362
Subjects: Films, cinema; c 1960 to c 1970; c 1970 to c 1980; c 1980 to c 1990; c 1990 to c 2000; Motion Pictures (General); Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism; Film & Video - Direction & Production
First sentence: Scorsese recalls that in 1960 New York film students were divided over the respective merits of La Dolce Vita and L'avventura.
Description: "Contemporary Cinema is a major study of key developments in the cinema of the last thirty years. Pasolini's landmark concept of 'the cinema of poetry' to look at the transformation of film form in its encounter with society, the sacred, the subjective and the presence of the camera. Poetic cinemas are seen as creating a distinctive match in their own cultures between critical social engagement and the delirium of form."--Jacket.