1st Edition

European Cinemas, European Societies

By Pierre Sorlin Copyright 1991
252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 2004. Through the Second World War and its aftermath, from economic boom to industrial decline, Europeans have faced similar changes in politics and outlook on life, but even on the eve of the formation of a single European Community, their cultural backgrounds are far from unified. In European Cinemas, European Societies 1939- 1990, Pierre Sorlin looks at the way the nations of... Read more
Images in society; the coming war; resistance; a golden age; the blurred image of cities; challenging Hollywood; a time for revisions.

Biography

Pierre Sorlin is currently Professor of Sociology of the Audiovisual Media at the Universite de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris. He is the author of a number of articles and books in English, of which The Film in History (1980) is probably the best known, and several texts in French, including the definitive and much respected Sociologies du cinema (1977).