Books in the Cinema Aesthetics series

Montage is an informed and highly original study in the styles and histories of film editing. Drawing on a wide range of directors and films, the book demonstrates the fundamental importance of montage aesthetics to the art of cinema and the practice of film criticism. -- .

A penetrating and illuminating series of essays that looks at some of the most distinctive directors in world cinema. Sam Rohdie is one of the most distinguished film scholars currently writing. He moves from the very well known - Hitchcock, Truffaut, Visconti, Welles - to those that he feels need more attention - Painleve, Vigo and Franju. -- .

A journey to the Italian cinema in the company of its major film makers and theorists. Rossellini, Visconti, Pasolini and Zavattini are given a new focus that overturns the usual views and perspectives. It offers new and exciting interpretations. -- .