European Directors and Their Films: Essays on Cinema Book

Introduction Part I. Italian Maestros
“The Neorealist Films of Vittorio De Sica”
“The Artistic Achievement of Federico Fellini: I Vitelloni, La Strada, and The Nights of Cabiria as Exempla”
“Film as the Characterization of Space, or the World Viewed: The Art of Michelangelo Antonioni”
“Married to the Job: Ermanno Olmi’s Il Posto and I Fidanzati Reconsidered”
“Forbidden Games: Gianni Amelio’s Stolen Children and Lamerica”
Part II. Francophone Masters
“‘Everyone Has His Reasons’: The Cinema of Jean Renoir”
“World Beyond and Grace: The Films of Robert Bresson”
“The Sound of Silence, The Space of Time: Monsieur Hulot and the Cinema of Jacques Tati”
“Seasons Change and Comedies Are Proverbial: The Tales of Eric Rohmer”
“Lower Depths, Higher Planes: On Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne’s La Promesse, Rosetta, The Son, and L’Enfant”
Part III. Nordic Auteurs
“Carl Dreyer’s Day of Wrath, the Spirit of Tragedy, and the Judgment of the Creator”
“Early vs. Later and Last Work: Ingmar Bergman’s Winter Light, Autumn Sonata, and Saraband”
“Lonely People, Living in the World: Three Films by Aki Kaurismäki”
“Memories Are Made of This: Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the FRG Trilogy”
“Shoot the Piano Player: The Piano Teacher and the Cinema of Michael Haneke”
Part IV. Russian and Other East European Raconteurs
“Lonely People, Living in the World: Viacheslav Krishtofovich’s Lonely Woman Seeks Life Companion, Vasily Pichul’s Little Vera, and Pavel Lounguine’s Taxi Blues”
“Suffer the Children: On Andrei Kravchuk’s The Italian and Vitaly Kanévski’s Freeze. Die. Come to Life.”
“Filial Longing: Julie Bertuccelli’s Since Otar Left, Károly Makk’s Love, and Sergei Bodrov’s Prisoner of the Mountains”
“Global War, Polish Remembrance: Roman Polanski’s The Pianist and Andrzej Wajda’s Katyn”
“The New Romanian Cinema: Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days; Corneliu Porumboiu’s 12:08 East of Bucharest and Police, Adjective; Florin Serban’s If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle; and Andrei Ujica’s The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu”
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