Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Emergence -- 1. Antecedents -- 2. Italian Neorealism -- 3. British Film Renaissance -- Part Two: Import Trends -- 4. Market Dynamics -- 5. French Films of the 1950s -- 6. Japanese Films of the 1950s -- 7. Ingmar Bergman: The Brand -- 8. The French New Wave -- 9. Angry Young Men: British New Cinema -- 10. The Second Italian Renaissance -- 11. Auteurs from Outside the Epicenter -- Part Three: Changing Dynamics -- 12. Enter Hollywood -- 13. The Aura of the New York Film Festival -- 14. Collapse -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Variety's All-Time Foreign Language Films to 2000 -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.