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Foreign language films and the Oscar : the nominees and winners, 1948-2017

"This guide lists each nominee--from the first-honored Shoeshine in 1948 through Iran's second Oscar winner, The Salesman, in 2017--chronologically and includes synopses, basic facts about personnel and production qualities, and rankings among annual opponents that differ from those of the Academy"--Volumes have been written about the Academy Awards-that yearly Hollywood bash that brings together the glamour, glitter and Oscar gold of the international film industry-but few books have dealt directly with specific categories beyond Best Picture. Foreign Language Films and the Oscar does just that, and it's an eye-opener for true cinephiles. Of course there's Italy's 8 1/2, Sweden's Through a Glass Darkly and Mexico's Pan's Labyrinth, but also Denmark's Harry and the Butler, Yugoslavia's I Even Met Happy Gypsies and Nicaragua's Alsino and the Condor. Over the past seven decades, two-thirds of the world's governments have submitted some 2,000 feature-length films for Oscar consideration, and 312 of them received nominations to compete for the title of Best Foreign Film. In this compendium, each of the nominees is catalogued chronologically, replete with a brief and descriptive synopsis, basic facts about its personnel and production qualities, and a ranking among its annual opponents that does not always jibe with that of the Academy. Michael S. Barrett has compiled an entertaining, easy-to-read, and somewhat provocative guide, listing the films from the first-honored Best Foreign-language Film in 1948, Shoeshine, through Iran's second Oscar winner in 2017, The Salesman.

Magill's survey of cinema, foreign language films

Films with legs : crossing borders with foreign language films

Films With Legs: Crossing Borders with Foreign-Language Films addresses the ways in which international cinematic traditions both erect borders and blur them or tear them down. Each chapter of this book examines both real and perceived borders, their representation on the screen and the ways in which they manifest in filmic texts that can also be cultural documents and political statements. The fifteen articles included here discuss films made by twenty-four directors, with dialogue in nine f ...

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