{"product_id":"european-art-cinema","title":"European Art Cinema","description":"\u003cp\u003eEuropean art cinema includes some of the most famous films in cinema history. It is elite filmmaking that stands in direct opposition to popular cinema; and yet, it also has an intimate relationship with Hollywood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis guidebook sketches successive phases of art cinema in Europe from its early beginnings of putting Shakespeare’s plays on the screen, through movements such as Expressionism and Surrealism, to the New Waves of the 1960s and more recent incarnations like Dogme 95. Using film examples, John White examines basic critical approaches to art cinema such as semiotics and auteur theory, as well as addressing recurring themes and ideas such as existentialism and Christian belief. The different levels of political commitment and social criticism, which appear in many of these films, are also discussed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book includes case studies of eight representative films:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• \u003ci\u003eThe Cabinet of Dr Caligari \u003c\/i\u003e(Wiene, 1920)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• \u003ci\u003eEarth \u003c\/i\u003e(Dovzhenko, 1930)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• \u003ci\u003eA Man Escaped \u003c\/i\u003e(Bresson, 1956)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• \u003ci\u003eHiroshima mon amour \u003c\/i\u003e(Resnais, 1959)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• \u003ci\u003eAguirre, Wrath of God \u003c\/i\u003e(Herzog, 1972)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• \u003ci\u003eComrades \u003c\/i\u003e(Douglas, 1986)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• \u003ci\u003eLe Quattro Volte \u003c\/i\u003e(Frammartino, 2010)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• \u003ci\u003eSilence \u003c\/i\u003e(Collins, 2012).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54235071152472,"sku":"9781138829183","price":34.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138829183.jpg?v=1769010317","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/european-art-cinema","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}