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The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946-1973
by Tino Balio
University of Wisconsin Press, 352 pp., $26.95
When I was sixteen and saw my first foreign films, Fellini’s 8 ½ and Bergman’s The Silence, the experience was altogether paradoxical. I felt smart and sophisticated, and part of a special fellowship with other members of the audience. But I also felt naïve, confused, and way out of my depth. Unable to understand their plots, let alone to fathom their deeper significances, these films were foreign in every sense—a completely different kind of movie experience.
Art films and foreign films have had a presence in America for a century, but the two decades afterMORE..........
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