The cinematic legacy of European modernism is both fascinating and elusive. Not least because the term modernism itself means so many things to so many people: David Bordwell’s surrogate “art-cinema narration” is equally malleable and may be even more bewildering (1). Two books just published, however, help to clear up the picture and shed new […]
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