Some months ago there were someone in the list searching film histories = which wouldn't be too concentrated in Hollywood cinema and preferably to speak= also about foreign cinema. I just found (in one old article) a reference= to Robert Kolker's book The Altering Eye: Contemporary International Cinema= . The book semms to be alittle bit old, printed in 1983 Oxford University = Press. Anyway, does anyone of you know this book? Is it still useful? Book's preface says as following (according to Burton's article, Screen, 1986): "... is the first major contemporary history to give Thir= d World films more than token attention. Kolker focuses on films "made in the sp= irit of resistance, rebellion, and refusal", and more specially on "films mad= e in Europe and Latin America... in reaction to American cinema, often to Ame= rica itself, yet dependent upon... the conventions and attitudes of American = films and culture...". He argues that "in fact no direct split between filmmak= ing in America and elsewhere exists. There is rather an interplay in which t= he dominant style (or styles) of American movies are always present to be d= enied, expanded upon, embraced, and rejected, only to be embraced again.= " Mari Maasilta ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]