European cinema

Abstract

Beginnings / Alison McMahan -- Soviet cinema: the old and the new / Denise J. Youngblood -- Weimar cinema: the predicament of modernity / Anton Kaes -- Dada and surrealist film / Rudolf Kuenzli -- French cinema in the 1930s / Dudley Andrew -- From Italian neorealism to the golden age of cinecittà / Peter Bondanella -- Postwar Scandinavian cinema / Peter Schlepelern -- The French new wave / T. Jefferson Kline -- From Ealing comedy to the British new wave / Sarah Street -- The new German cinema / Thomas Elsaesser -- The Cinéma du look / Sue Harris -- The new Italian cinema / Gaetana Marrone -- Contemporary Spanish cinema / Peter William Evans -- East-Central European cinema: beyond the Iron Curtain / Paul Coates -- French cinema of the margins / Martine Beugnet -- New directions in European cinema / John Orr.