Screening Modernism - European Art Cinema, 1950-1980 Kovacs Andras Balint Paperback

Casting fresh light on the renowned productions of auteurs like Antonioni, Fellini, and Bresson and drawing out from the shadows a range of important but lesser-known works, Screening Modernism is the first comprehensive study of European art cinema's postwar heyday.Spanning from the 1950s to the 1970s, Andr s B lint Kov cs's encyclopedic work argues that cinematic modernism was not a unified movement with a handful of styles and themes but rather a stunning range of variations on the core principles of modern art. He then explains the main formal characteristics of modern styles and forms as well as their intellectual foundation. Illustrating how the concepts of modernism and the avant-garde variously manifest themselves in film, Kov cs begins by tracing the emergence of art cinema as a historical category.

Finally, drawing on modernist theory and philosophy along the way,