{"product_id":"the-foreign-film-renaissance-on-tino-balio-9780299247942","title":"The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946a 1973","description":"\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 Fran輟is Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Tony Richardson, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Luis Buel, 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tino Balio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0299247945\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299247942\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/05\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.84h x 6.02w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2010 pg. 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2010 pg. 12\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/17\/2010 pg. 12\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/03\/2011","brand":"Tino Balio","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946398155007,"sku":"9780299247942","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_0b19cee0-5f49-4825-99d3-a173fab6d5db.jpg?v=1681512917","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-foreign-film-renaissance-on-tino-balio-9780299247942","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}