How Long to Read The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946–1973

How Long Does it Take to Read The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946–1973?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 17 minutes to read The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946–1973 by Tino Balio

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Largely shut out of American theaters since the 1920s, foreign films such as Open City, Bicycle Thief, Rashomon, The Seventh Seal, Breathless, La Dolce Vita and L’Avventura played after World War II in a growing number of art houses around the country and created a small but influential art film market devoted to the acquisition, distribution, and exhibition of foreign-language and English-language films produced abroad. Nurtured by successive waves of imports from Italy, Great Britain, France, Sweden, Japan, and the Soviet Bloc, the renaissance was kick-started by independent distributors working out of New York; by the 1960s, however, the market had been subsumed by Hollywood. From Roberto Rossellini’s Open City in 1946 to Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris in 1973, Tino Balio tracks the critical reception in the press of such filmmakers as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Tony Richardson, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Luis Buñuel, Satyajit Ray, and Milos Forman. Their releases paled in comparison to Hollywood fare at the box office, but their impact on American film culture was enormous. The reception accorded to art house cinema attacked motion picture censorship, promoted the director as auteur, and celebrated film as an international art. Championing the cause was the new “cinephile” generation, which was mostly made up of college students under thirty. The fashion for foreign films depended in part on their frankness about sex. When Hollywood abolished the Production Code in the late 1960s, American-made films began to treat adult themes with maturity and candor. In this new environment, foreign films lost their cachet and the art film market went into decline.

How long is The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946–1973?

The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946–1973 by Tino Balio is 367 pages long, and a total of 94,319 words.

This makes it 124% the length of the average book. It also has 115% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946–1973 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 35 minutes to read The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946–1973 aloud.

What Reading Level is The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946–1973?

The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946–1973 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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