{"product_id":"the-foreign-film-renaissance-on-american-screens-1946a-1973-paperback","title":"The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946a 1973 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTino Balio\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLargely shut out of American theaters since the 1920s, foreign films such as \u003ci\u003eOpen City\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBicycle Thief\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRashomon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Seventh Seal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBreathless\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLa Dolce Vita\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eL'Avventura\u003c\/i\u003e 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 films produced abroad. Nurtured by successive waves of imports from Italy, Great Britain, France, Sweden, Japan, and the Soviet Bloc, the renaissance was kick-started by independent distributors working out of New York; by the 1960s, however, the market had been subsumed by Hollywood.\u003cbr\u003e From Roberto Rossellini's \u003ci\u003eOpen City\u003c\/i\u003e in 1946 to Bernardo Bertolucci's \u003ci\u003eLast Tango\u003c\/i\u003e in Paris in 1973, Tino Balio tracks the critical reception in the press of such filmmakers as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Tony Richardson, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Luis Buñuel, Satyajit Ray, and Milos Forman. Their releases paled in comparison to Hollywood fare at the box office, but their impact on American film culture was enormous. The reception accorded to art house cinema attacked motion picture censorship, promoted the director as auteur, and celebrated film as an international art. Championing the cause was the new \"cinephile\" generation, which was mostly made up of college students under thirty.\u003cbr\u003e The fashion for foreign films depended in part on their frankness about sex. When Hollywood abolished the Production Code in the late 1960s, American-made films began to treat adult themes with maturity and candor. In this new environment, foreign films lost their cachet and the art film market went into decline.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTino Balio is professor emeritus of film in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and former director of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research. He is author of \u003ci\u003eUnited Artists, Volume 1, 1919-1950\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVolume 2, 1951-1978\u003c\/i\u003e as well as \u003ci\u003eGrand Design: Hollywood as Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939\u003c\/i\u003e. He is editor of \u003ci\u003eThe American Film Industry\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHollywood in the Age of Television\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 362\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.84 x 6.02 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47385302859954,"sku":"9780299247942","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/818d55881a56f858486817cd66422c85_7604d04a-08ac-4f7b-9dac-fc715ffa81d1.webp?v=1777900801","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-foreign-film-renaissance-on-american-screens-1946a-1973-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}