<p>With McDonalds in Moscow and Disneyland in Paris and Tokyo American popular culture is spreading around the globe. Regional national and ethnic cultures are being powerfully affected by competition from American values and American popular forms. This literate and lively study explores the spread of American culture into international cinema as reflected by the collision and partial merger of two important styles of filmmaking: the Hollywood style of stars genres and action and the European art film style of ambiguity authorial commentary and borrowings from other arts.</p> <p>Peter Lev departs from the traditional approach of national cinema histories and discusses some of the blends overlaps and hegemonies that are typical of the world film industry of recent years. In Part One he gives a historical and theoretical overview of what he terms the Euro-American art film which is characterized by prominent use of the English language a European art film director cast and crew from at least two countries and a stylistic mixing of European art film and American entertainment.</p> <p>The second part of Lev's study examines in detail five examples of the Euro-American art film: <i>Contempt</i> (1963) <i>Blow-Up</i> (1966) <i>The Canterbury Tales</i> (1972) <i>Paris Texas</i> (1983) and <i>The Last Emperor</i> (1987). These case studies reveal that the European art film has had a strong influence on world cinema and that many Euro-American films are truly cultural blends rather than abject takeovers by Hollywood cinema.</p>
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