The Red Years of Cahiers du cinéma (1968-1973):Ideology and Politics (Film Culture in Transition)

by: Daniel Fairfax (Author)

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Publication Date: 2021/6/22

Language: English

Print Length: 426 pages

ISBN-10: 9463728503

ISBN-13: 9789463728508

Book Description

The uprising which shook France in May 1968 also had a revolutionary effect on the country's most prominent film joual. Under editors Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni, Cahiers du cinéma embarked on a militant tu that would gove the joual'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 cinéma 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. The Red Years of Cahiers du Cinéma (1968-1973) gives a historical overview of this period in the joual'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. Volume I focuses on the relationship of film with the spheres of ideology and politics.

About the Author

The uprising which shook France in May 1968 also had a revolutionary effect on the country's most prominent film joual. Under editors Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni, Cahiers du cinéma embarked on a militant tu that would gove the joual'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 cinéma 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. The Red Years of Cahiers du Cinéma (1968-1973) gives a historical overview of this period in the joual'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. Volume I focuses on the relationship of film with the spheres of ideology and politics.