European directors and their films : essays on cinema /
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Lanham :
Scarecrow Press, Inc.,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Finnish character: the cinema of 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
- 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 "Erban's If I want to whistle, I whistle; and Andrei Ujica's The autobiography of Nicolae Ceauescu.