(Ebook) Beyond the Subtitle: Remapping European Art Cinema by Mark Betz ISBN 9780816640355, 9780816640362, 0816640351, 081664036X

(Ebook) Beyond the Subtitle: Remapping European Art Cinema by Mark Betz ISBN 9780816640355, 9780816640362, 0816640351, 081664036X

A provocative rethinking of national cinema, authorship, & the discipline of film studies Examining European art films of the 1950s & 1960s, Mark Betz argues that it is time for film analysis to move beyond prevailing New Wave historiography, mired in outdated notions of nationalism & dragged down by decades of auteurist criticism. Focusing on the cinemas of France & Italy, Betz reveals how the flowering of European art films in the postwar era is inseparable from the complex historical & political frameworks of the time. Remapping the practices & paradigms of film history, Beyond the Subtitle calls into question the concept of national cinema & explores the largely neglected subjects of subtitling, dubbing, & art film co-productions.     
Betz also analyzes the iconic figure of the “wandering woman,” or flan? use, who appears in many of the films under consideration, in light of the postwar boom, modernization, & decolonization. Finally, he rescues the omnibus films to show the need for a new film studies approach. Beyond the Subtitle demonstrates how the geopolitical & institutional contexts that gave rise to these films & to academic film studies should be incorporated into future analysis in order to gain new insight into debates on race, gender, & imperialism.