The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946a 1973 Contributor(s): Balio, Tino (Author) |
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ISBN: 0299247945 ISBN-13: 9780299247942 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $25.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Performing Arts | Film - Guides & Reviews |
Dewey: 791.437 |
LCCN: 2010011533 |
Series: Wisconsin Film Studies |
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.02" W x 8.84" (1.16 lbs) 362 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |