Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 4140569 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey Nowell-Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Nowell-Smith |
| SIGNATURE | NOWELL-SMITH G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
My Italian Cinema
Geoffrey Nowell-Smith is Honorary Professorial Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. Among other publications he is the author of Making Waves: New Cinemas of the 1960s (Continuum, 2008), Luchino Visconti (British Film Institute, 2003 [orig. 1967]), L’avventura (British Film Institute, 1997), and the editor of The Oxford History of World Cinema (Oxford, 1996) and English translations of the works of Gramsci
Variations on a theme
Luchino Visconti
Geschichte des Internationalen Films
The Oxford History of World Cinema
Gramsci and Culture
Francois Truffaut
If Godard is the most difficult, Truffaut is the most elusive of all the directors of the one-time New Wave. As a man and as a director he seems given over to self-contradiction, and his career to date appears to be an intricate web of unresolved paradoxes. He
Alain Resnais
It is a strange but much noted fact that in the cinema there is rarely any simple correlation between a director’s output and his reputation. John Ford had made some 50 films, mostly two-reelers, before ever making a name for himself: Roger Corman has made over 40 in
L'Annee Derniere a Marienbad
Ideally, criticism of L’Année Dernière à Marienbad should be totally superfluous. One would say: ‘A lot of money has been spent, a troupe of actors and technicians has been engaged, and three châteaux invaded to serve as decor, for an entertainment devised by Alain Robbe-Grillet, and presented in
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L'Annee Derniere a Marienbad
Ideally, criticism of L’Année Dernière à Marienbad should be totally superfluous. One would say: ‘A lot of money has been spent, a troupe of actors and technicians has been engaged, and three châteaux invaded to serve as decor, for an entertainment devised by Alain Robbe-Grillet, and presented in
Alain Resnais
It is a strange but much noted fact that in the cinema there is rarely any simple correlation between a director’s output and his reputation. John Ford had made some 50 films, mostly two-reelers, before ever making a name for himself: Roger Corman has made over 40 in
Francois Truffaut
If Godard is the most difficult, Truffaut is the most elusive of all the directors of the one-time New Wave. As a man and as a director he seems given over to self-contradiction, and his career to date appears to be an intricate web of unresolved paradoxes. He
Gramsci and Culture
The Oxford History of World Cinema
Geschichte des Internationalen Films
Luchino Visconti
Variations on a theme
My Italian Cinema
Geoffrey Nowell-Smith is Honorary Professorial Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. Among other publications he is the author of Making Waves: New Cinemas of the 1960s (Continuum, 2008), Luchino Visconti (British Film Institute, 2003 [orig. 1967]), L’avventura (British Film Institute, 1997), and the editor of The Oxford History of World Cinema (Oxford, 1996) and English translations of the works of Gramsci
Art (4 works) · Movie theater (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Entertainment (2 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Cine (1 work) · Cinéma (1 work)