Cinema Eye, Cinema Ear

Some Key Film-makers of the Sixties

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by John Russell Taylor

Type

Studies

Subject

Film Analysis

Keywords

analysis, Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Bresson, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Luis Buñuel, Michelangelo Antonioni

Publishing date

2015

Publisher

Routledge

Collection

Routledge Library Editions: Cinema

1st publishing

1964

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 312 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-1-138-99131-6

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Book Presentation:
Since the cinema first began to be taken seriously as an art form, there has been a constant debate on the question: who is the real creator of the film, the writer or the director? This study of a group of key film-makers in the sixties suggests that during this decade there was an emergence of a generation of film-makers who conceived a whole film in their minds just as an architect conceives a whole cathedral or a composer a whole symphony.

The book presents detailed critical studies of the work of six commanding figures in the international cinema: four who have made their major reputations since 1950, the Italians Frederico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni, the Frenchman Robert Bresson and the Swede Ingmar Bergman; and two film-makers of an older generation, the Spaniard Luis Buñuel and the Anglo-American Alfred Hitchcock, who have reached the height of their powers and exerted their most important influence on the cinema during the same period. There is also a section on the new talents to emerge more recently in the French ‘New Wave’, in particular François Truffaut, Jen-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais. In addition, the book contains detailed filmographies of the directors discussed.

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