The Red Years of Cahiers du cinéma (1968-1973) : Volume I, Ideology and Politics / Daniel Fairfax.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fairfax, Daniel, Author.

Series:

Film culture in transition

Film Culture in Transition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cahiers du cinéma.

Motion pictures--France--Periodicals.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The uprising which shook France in May 1968 also had a revolutionary effect on the country's most prominent film journal. Under editors Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni, 'Cahiers du cinema' embarked on a militant turn that would govern the journal's work over the next five years. With a Marxist orientation inspired by the thinking of Louis Althusser, Jacques Lacan and Roland Barthes, the "red years" of 'Cahiers du cinema' produced a theoretical outpouring that was formative for the establishment of film studies as an academic discipline in the 1970s, and is still of vital relevance for the contemporary audiovisual landscape. It was also the seminal experience for a generation of critics who have dedicated the following half-century to the task of critically responding to the cinema. 00'The Red Years of Cahiers du Cinema (1968-1973)' gives a historical overview of this period in the journal's history, combining biographical accounts of the critics who were involved with Cahiers in the post-1968 and theoretical explorations of the text they wrote.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

A Note on Translations

Introduction

Part I. Theories of Ideology

1. "Cinéma/Idéologie/Critique": An Epistemological Break?

2. Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni: Crossed Lives

3. Décalages: "Young Mr. Lincoln de John Ford"

5. "Technique et Idéologie" by Jean-Louis Comolli

6. Afterlives of the Apparatus

Part II. Engagements with Politics

7. The Radicalization of Cahiers: 1963-1969

8. Cahiers du cinéma and the Rapprochement with the PCF: 1969-1971

9. Cahiers du cinéma's Turn to Maoism: 1971-1973

10. Cahiers du cinéma and Jean-Luc Godard

11. Cahiers du cinéma in the "Postgauchiste" Era: 1973-1981

12. Bernard Eisenschitz: Cinema, Communism and History

13. Jean-Louis Comolli: A Theoretical Practice of Political Cinema

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-04-080011-4

1-003-70752-1

1-04-077421-0

94-6372-850-3

90-485-4390-8

9781003707523

OCLC:

1342915038