Comparative cinema; how American university students view foreign films

Reference & Research Book News, May, 2008

Comparative cinema; how American university students view foreign films.

Ed. by Beate Allert.

Edwin Mellen Pr.

2008

345 pages

$119.95

Hardcover

PN1993

Allert (foreign languages and literature, Purdue U.) offers a collection of critical essays on European film written by approximately 20 graduate students who participated in a series of international film seminars she taught from 2006 to 2007. The essays offer fresh perspectives and an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and appreciating the film medium. They focus on films that are not mainstream, but nonetheless significant. Topics include the use of signs and images, sound and light, manipulating time and space, gender and identity, ideology, politics, and other directorial techniques and influences. The volume includes a bibliography, but has no index.

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