Beyond the Subtitle

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Beyond the Subtitle

Remapping European Art Cinema

Mark Betz

Table of Contents

$25.00 paper
ISBN: 978-0-8166-4036-2

$75.00 cloth
ISBN: 978-0-8166-4035-5

A provocative rethinking of national cinema, authorship, and the discipline of film studies

Examining European art films of the 1950s and 1960s, Mark Betz argues that it is time for film analysis to move beyond prevailing New Wave historiography, mired in outdated notions of nationalism and dragged down by decades of auteurist criticism. Focusing on the cinemas of France and Italy, Betz reveals how the flowering of European art films in the postwar era is inseparable from the complex historical and political frameworks of the time.

Remapping the practices and paradigms of film history, Beyond the Subtitle calls into question the concept of national cinema and explores the largely neglected subjects of subtitling, dubbing, and art film coproductions. Betz also analyzes the iconic figure of the “wandering woman,” or flanêuse, who appears in many of the films under consideration, in light of the postwar boom, modernization, and decolonization. Finally, he rescues the omnibus films to show the need for a new film studies approach.

Beyond the Subtitle demonstrates how the geopolitical and institutional contexts that gave rise to these films and to academic film studies should be incorporated into future analysis in order to gain new insight into debates on race, gender, and imperialism.

Mark Betz is senior lecturer in film studies at King’s College, University of London.

384 pages | 40 b&w photos, 1 table | 6 x 9 | 2009

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Recovering European Art Cinema

2. The Name above the Subtitle: Language, Coproduction, Transnationalism

3. Wandering Women: Decolonization, Modernity, Recolonization

4. Exquisite Corpses: Art Cinema, Film Studies, and the Omnibus Film

Appendix: Omnibus Filmography

Notes

Index

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Beyond the Subtitle *Remapping European Art Cinema* Mark Betz Table of Contents		$25.00 paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-4036-2 $75.00 cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-4035-5
A provocative rethinking of national cinema, authorship, and the discipline of film studies Examining European art films of the 1950s and 1960s, Mark Betz argues that it is time for film analysis to move beyond prevailing New Wave historiography, mired in outdated notions of nationalism and dragged down by decades of auteurist criticism. Focusing on the cinemas of France and Italy, Betz reveals how the flowering of European art films in the postwar era is inseparable from the complex historical and political frameworks of the time. Remapping the practices and paradigms of film history, Beyond the Subtitle calls into question the concept of national cinema and explores the largely neglected subjects of subtitling, dubbing, and art film coproductions. Betz also analyzes the iconic figure of the “wandering woman,” or flanêuse, who appears in many of the films under consideration, in light of the postwar boom, modernization, and decolonization. Finally, he rescues the omnibus films to show the need for a new film studies approach. Beyond the Subtitle demonstrates how the geopolitical and institutional contexts that gave rise to these films and to academic film studies should be incorporated into future analysis in order to gain new insight into debates on race, gender, and imperialism. Mark Betz is senior lecturer in film studies at King’s College, University of London. 384 pages \| 40 b&w photos, 1 table \| 6 x 9 \| 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Recovering European Art Cinema 2. The Name above the Subtitle: Language, Coproduction, Transnationalism 3. Wandering Women: Decolonization, Modernity, Recolonization 4. Exquisite Corpses: Art Cinema, Film Studies, and the Omnibus Film Appendix: Omnibus Filmography Notes Index