ABSTRACT
The year 1950 is a useful point to demarcate a number of changes in film history, among
them the pervasive movement for change in film. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the growth in achievement and importance on an international level. Just as Hollywood experi-
mented with the wide screen in this period, a group of British filmmakers challenged the
orthodoxy of the documentary, a group of French writers who became filmmakers suggested that film authorship allowed personal styles to be expressed over industrial conventions, and
young Italian filmmakers simplified narratives and film styles to politicize a popular art form. All sought alternatives to the classic style.
