The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946a 1973

by Tino Balio

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299247945
• ISBN13: 9780299247942
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.8"