Enduring images : a future history of new left cinema / Morgan Adamson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adamson, Morgan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Social aspects.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--History--20th century.

History.

New Left.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

313 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]

Summary:

In this comparative and theoretical account of New Left cinema, Morgan Adamson argues that the cinemas of the New Left are sites to examine, through the lens of struggle, the reshaping of global capitalism during the pivotal moment in which they were made while also exploring how these movements endure in contemporary culture and politics. She details how student, labor, anti-imperialist, Black Power, and second-wave feminist movements broke with auteur cinema and sought to forge local and international solidarities by producing political essay films, generating new ways of being and thinking in common. Including in-depth discussions of Third Cinema in Argentina, feminist cinema in Italy, Newsreel movements in the United States, and cybernetics in early video, Enduring Images is an essential examination of the political films of the 1960s and 1970s. Looking at new forms of cinematic resistance - including detailed readings of particular films, collectives and movements - Adamson makes a case for cinema's centrality to the global New Left.

Contents:

Introduction

The new left's essay film: from subjective expression to collective insurgency

Toward a new mode of study: the student new left and the occupation of cinema

Finally got the news at the end of the short American century

Italian feminist collectives and the "unexpected subject"

Cybernetic guerrilla warfare: early video and the ambivalence of information

Inflation of the image; or, the image of revolution in the 1970s

Epilogue: a future history?

Italian feminist collectives and the �a��unexpected subject�a�yen

Epilogue: a future history

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Adamson, Morgan. Enduring images.

ISBN:

9781517903084

1517903084

9781517903091

1517903092

OCLC:

1039199302