{"product_id":"cahiers-du-cinma-the-1950s-neorealism-hollywood-new-wave-harvard-film-studies-9780674090613","title":"Cahiers du Cinma: The 1950s: Neo-Realism  Hollywood  New Wave (Harvard Film Studies)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCahiers du Cinma is the most prestigious and influential film journal ever published. An anthology devoted entirely to its writings  in English translation  is long overdue.  The selections in this volume are drawn from the colorful first decade of Cahiers  19511959  when a group of young iconoclasts rocked the world of film criticism with their provocative views on international cinemaAmerican  Italian  and French in particular. They challenged long-established Anglo-Saxon attitudes by championing American popular movies  addressing genres such as the Western and the thriller and the aesthetics of technological developments like CinemaScope  emphasizing mise en scne as much as thematic content  and assessing the work of individual filmmakers such as Hawks  Hitchcock  and Nicholas Ray in terms of a new theory of the director as author  auteur  a revolutionary concept at the time. Italian film  especially the work of Rossellini  prompted sharp debates about realism that helped shift the focus of critical discussion from content toward style. The critiques of French cinema have special interest because many of the journals major contributors and theoristsGodard  Truffaut  Rohmer  Rivette  Chabrolwere to become some of Frances most important film directors and leaders of the New Wave.  Translated under the supervision of the British Film Institute  the selections have for the most part never appeared in English until now. Jim Hillier has organized them into topical groupings and has provided introductions to the parts as well as the whole. Together these essays  reviews  discussions  and polemics reveal the central ideas of the Cahiers of the 1950s not as fixed doctrines but as provocative  productive  often contradictory contributions to crucial debates that were to overturn critical thinking about film.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652698464309,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674090616","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674090613.jpg?v=1781852460","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/cahiers-du-cinma-the-1950s-neorealism-hollywood-new-wave-harvard-film-studies-9780674090613","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}