In Search of Cinema

Writings on International Film Art

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by Bert Cardullo

Type

Writings

Subject

Countries > World

Keywords

world cinema, art films

Publishing date

2004

Publisher

McGill-Queen's University Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 416 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-7735-2707-9
978-0-7735-2707-2

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Book Presentation:
An elegant and rigorous demonstration of the richness of contemporary film art and the need for humanistic criticism.

In Search of Cinema chronicles the vitality of international film art in the last two decades. At a time when the movie review has degenerated into mere publicity for Hollywood pictures and film scholarship has become entangled in its own pseudo-scientific discourse, Bert Cardullo reclaims the territory of a certain type of film critic, somewhere between a reviewer-journalist and a scholar-theorist. With elegance, clarity, and rigour, he offers close readings of individual films to show how moviemakers use the resources of the medium to pursue complex, significant human goals.

The essays collected here reflect the spectacular rise of Iranian cinema in recent years as well as the strong contributions of contemporary filmmakers from countries such as Belgium, Canada, China, Israel, Lebanon, Scotland, and Spain. But In Search of Cinema does not neglect the best recent films from major film-producing nations like the United States, France, and Italy and includes retrospective pieces on the careers of Ingmar Bergman and Woody Allen as well as several essays on the interrelationship between film form, or film genres, and drama and the novel, the two forms from which the cinema continues to draw a wealth of its material.

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