Books in the Cinema and Modernity series

Documents the infancy of film in Europe - complete with proto-divas, laughable production schedules, and cost-cutting measures with priceless effects - and offers a glimpse of the modern world through the camera's lens. This book captures early twentieth-century Italian filmmaking and reveals its truths as only a parody can.

A study of European art cinema's postwar heyday. This book presents an argument that cinematic modernism was not a unified movement. It traces the emergence of art cinema as a historical category. It explains the main formal characteristics of modern styles and forms as well as their intellectual foundation.

"This book explores music soundtracks for films and demonstrates that film has helped shape modern culture by changing the culture of memory. It shows that this change rests in no small measure on the mnemonic powers of music"--