Product Description: Comprised of fourteen chapters, the book opens with studies of Louis Feuillade, Jean Painlevé, Jean Vigo and Georges Franju. In each case the author finds original points of reference and cross-reference to other film-makers, and visual artists, particularly within modernism...read more

Product Description: The first in a new Legenda Film Studies series, Rohdie's essay examines the relationship between three key theoretical concepts in film history - classicism, montage and mise-en-scene - showing how each one concerns the problem of modernism and the link between cinema and the other arts...read more

Product Description: Montage enters into a dialogue with the cinema, probing and playing with its language of motion and stillness, continuity and discontinuity, constraint and openness, time and duration. Comprised of a series of elegantly-written and intellectually vibrant essays, Sam Rohdie's book carefully expresses his ideas and arguments in a manner free from the complexities of contemporary theory and cultural criticism...read more

Federico Fellini was one of the most inventive of film-makers and he remains one of the best loved. This volume offers and approach to Fellini's work and to the practice of film criticism.

This book attempts to locate cinema alongside philosophy, painting, geography and travel in terms of a history of modernism. The book focuses on a collection of geographical and ethnographic films and photographs amassed by banker Albert Kahn, in the 1900s--arguably an instance of French modernism. (view table of contents)

This is a personal account of Pier Paolo Pasolini's cinema and literature, written by the author of 'Antonioni' and 'Rocco and his Brothers'.

Product Description: Lubin Visconti was at the height of his powers when he directed Rocco and His Brothers in 1960. An epic of modern urban life, Rocco tells the story of a family of peasants uprooted from their village in southern Italy, and forced to battle for existence in the industrial metropolis of Milan...read more

An overview abd analysis of filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni's work in cinema.