Cinema Today begins by examining the moment at which the modern blockbuster was born. In the early 1970s a string of spectacularly successful films such as MASH (1970), The Godfather (1972) and Jaws (1975) transformed the economic climate of Hollywood and the power relationship within it. The first half of the book looks at New Hollywood and explores its recent and continued development through film genres including Crime, Science Fiction, Horror and Comedy. The book identifies how social and economic change influenced the development of films, assesses the impact of emerging new waves of cinema on Hollywood and Hollywood's reaction to these changes. Influential directors such as Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, George Lucas, Spike Lee and Steven Spielberg are all featured in these chapters along with their films.
We then move onto the world stage where Edward Buscombe explores the unique style of film output from Australasia, Africa, India, Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and South America. Specific film genres and trends of these regions are highlighted and discussed in relation to the social and economic climate of the time. Many of these film industries, such as French, Indian and Japanese, are significant centres of world production. In these chapters, Buscombe examines the Bollywood cinema of India, art house cinema of France, the British comedy, Japanese crime films and Mexican horror films. The films of Bernardo Bertolucci, Pedro Almodóvar, Akira Kurosawa, Roman Polanski, Luc Besson, Mike Leigh, Ousmane Sembène and Chen Kaige are just an example of the range of work discussed.
With a comprehensive directors' filmography, a bibliography, chronology and index at the back of the book, Cinema Today is an invaluable reference tool.
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Book Description paperback. Condition: Neu. Neu -Der Band dokumentiert die wichtigsten Filme und filmischen Entwicklungen seit den späten 60er Jahren, als die unangefochtene Machtposition des Hollywood-Kinos zunehmend von Konkurrenzproduktionen aus aller Welt demontiert wurde. Vor allem das europäische Autorenkino war lange richtungsweisend für die Filme dieser neuen Ära, auf die Hollywood mit seinen Blockbuster-Filmen antwortete. Die weltweite Entwicklung des Kinos in allen seinen Genres sowie die wichtigsten Filme im Einzelnen präsentiert dieser voluminöse Band in fundierten Beiträgen des renommierten Wissenschaftlers Edward Buscombo sowie in großartigen unzähligen Filmstills. Englische Originalausgabe, jetzt in preiswerter Neuauflage.\\nErscheinungsdatum: 04.03.2005 Schlagwörter: cinema today Autor: Edward Buscombe Sachgruppen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik, Kunst, Fotografie, Film, Video, TV Preisänderung: 20.03.2024 Anzahl Seiten: 512 Format: 28,40 x 24,80 x 4,40 cm VergleichspreisMax: 49,95 512 pp. Deutsch. Seller Inventory # 302430