Provides overviews of key movements in European film history, since the inception of the medium. This book includes introductions to traditions as diverse as early Soviet cinema, German Expressionism, Surrealism, Italian Neorealism, the French New Wave, Ealing Comedy, East-Central European cinema, Contemporary Spanish cinema, and more.

A broad historical scope: spans from beginnings of cinema in 1895 to the present, from the Lumière Brothers to Pedro Almodóvar. Provides overviews of key movements and traditions in film history, combining artistic analysis with considerable attention to industrial (and more broadly historical) context Includes Glossary of film terms that comprises foreign-language and historical entries as well as technical terminology Authoritative information and analysis provided by an international team of experts who are at the top of their fields Truly outstanding line-up of contributors from the US, UK and Europe including: Dudley Andrew (French Cinema of the 1930s); Anton Kaes (Weimar Cinema): Sarah Street (British Cinema); Peter Bondanella (Itlalian Neo-Realism); Thomas Elsaesser (New German Cinema)

Dr Elizabeth Ezra is a Lecturer in European Film and Media at the University of Stirling. She took her PhD at Cornell University in 1992. Her previous publications include Georges Méliès: The Birth of the Auteur (Manchester University Press, 2000), The Colonial Unconscious: Race and Culture in Interwar France (Cornell University Press, 2000). and co-edited with Sue Harris France in Focus: Film and National Identity (Bergman, 2001).

A broad historical scope: spans from beginnings of cinema in 1895 to the present, from the Lumière Brothers to Pedro Almodóvar. Provides overviews of key movements and traditions in film history, combining artistic analysis with considerable attention to industrial (and more broadly historical) context Includes Glossary of film terms that comprises foreign-language and historical entries as well as technical terminology Authoritative information and analysis provided by an international team of experts who are at the top of their fields Truly outstanding line-up of contributors from the US, UK and Europe including: Dudley Andrew (French Cinema of the 1930s); Anton Kaes (Weimar Cinema): Sarah Street (British Cinema); Peter Bondanella (Itlalian Neo-Realism); Thomas Elsaesser (New German Cinema)