{"product_id":"the-red-years-of-cahiers-du-cinema-1968-1973-9789463721011","title":"The Red Years of Cahiers du cinéma (1968-1973)","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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, \u003ccite\u003eCahiers du cinéma\u003c\/cite\u003e embarked on a militant turn that would govern the journal's work over the next five years. Inspired by Marxist and psychoanalytic theory, the \"red years\" of \u003ccite\u003eCahiers du cinéma\u003c\/cite\u003e produced a theoretical outpouring that was seminal for the formation of film studies and is still of vital relevance for the contemporary audiovisual landscape. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ccite\u003eThe Red Years of Cahiers du Cinéma (1968-1973)\u003c\/cite\u003e gives an overview of this period in the journal’s history and its aftermath, combining biographical accounts of the critics who wrote for \u003ccite\u003eCahiers\u003c\/cite\u003e in the post 1968 period with theoretical explorations of their key texts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Daniel Fairfax’s book is an impressive work that casts new light on the history of \u003ccite\u003eCahiers du cinéma\u003c\/cite\u003e. Thanks to exhaustive archival research, Fairfax re-establishes the coherent yet complex trajectory of the journal. It is an exemplary study: the outcome of true dedication, astute critical sensibility and a great passion for film.\" \u003cbr\u003e - Francesco Casetti, Yale University \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"During its 'red years,' the core contributors to \u003ccite\u003eCahiers du cinéma\u003c\/cite\u003e rethought cinema in ways that have had lasting influence for contemporary film studies. This is an extraordinarily comprehensive work that not only yields a tremendous amount of information and theoretical nuance, but also offers new ways of understanding \u003ccite\u003eCahiers\u003c\/cite\u003e in its Marxist phase.\" \u003cbr\u003e - Philip Rosen, Brown University \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Listen to author Daniel Fairfax in conversation with Annie Berke, the Film Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books, on the New Books in Film podcast: https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/2yh5YCxk3ChglwhdSHZYZr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ccite\u003e\u003cem\u003eVolume I: Ideology and Politics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements \u003cbr\u003eA Note on Translations \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I Theories of Ideology \u003cbr\u003e1. \"Cinema\/Ideologie\/Critique\": An Epistemological Break? \u003cbr\u003e2. Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni: Crossed Lives \u003cbr\u003e3. \u003ccite\u003eDécalages\u003c\/cite\u003e: \"\u003ccite\u003eYoung Mr. Lincoln\u003c\/cite\u003e de John Ford\" \u003cbr\u003e4. \"La Vicariance du Pouvoir\" and the Battle of \u003ccite\u003eOthon\u003c\/cite\u003e \u003cbr\u003e5. \"Technique et Ideologie\" by Jean-Louis Comolli \u003cbr\u003e6. Afterlives of the Apparatus \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II Engagements with Politics \u003cbr\u003e7. The Radicalization of \u003ccite\u003eCahiers\u003c\/cite\u003e: 1963-1969 \u003cbr\u003e8. \u003ccite\u003eCahiers du cinéma\u003c\/cite\u003e and the Rapprochement with the PCF: 1969-1971 \u003cbr\u003e9. \u003ccite\u003eCahiers du cinéma’s\u003c\/cite\u003e Turn to Maoism: 1971-1973 \u003cbr\u003e10. \u003ccite\u003eCahiers du cinéma\u003c\/cite\u003e and Jean-Luc Godard \u003cbr\u003e11. \u003ccite\u003eCahiers du cinéma\u003c\/cite\u003e in the \"Post-\u003ccite\u003egauchiste\u003c\/cite\u003e\" Era: 1973-1981 \u003cbr\u003e12. Bernard Eisenschitz: Cinema, Communism and History \u003cbr\u003e13. Jean-Louis Comolli: A Theoretical Practice of Political Cinema \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ccite\u003e\u003cem\u003eVolume II: Aesthetics and Ontology\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III Questions of Aesthetics \u003cbr\u003e14. Encounters with Structuralism \u003cbr\u003e15. Beyond Structuralism: Film Form and \u003ccite\u003eÉcriture\u003c\/cite\u003e \u003cbr\u003e16. Re-reading Classical Cinema \u003cbr\u003e17. The Defense and Critique of Cinematic Modernism \u003cbr\u003e18. Encountering the World Through Cinema \u003cbr\u003e19. The Film Aesthetics of Jacques Aumont \u003cbr\u003e20. Two \u003ccite\u003eCiné-fils\u003c\/cite\u003e: Pascal Kane and Serge Daney \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part IV Encounters with Ontology \u003cbr\u003e21. The Bazinian Legacy \u003cbr\u003e22. Jean-Pierre Oudart and Suture \u003cbr\u003e23. Realism and Psychoanalysis in Pierre Baudry \u003cbr\u003e24. Partial Vision: The Theory and Filmmaking of Pascal Bonitzer \u003cbr\u003e25. The Brain is the Screen: \u003ccite\u003eCahiers du cinéma\u003c\/cite\u003e and Gilles Deleuze \u003cbr\u003e26. Film Ontology in the Age of \"New\" Media \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion \u003cbr\u003eIndex of Names Cited","brand":"Amsterdam University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50473240133975,"sku":"9789463721011","price":197.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9789463721011.jpg?v=1744905820","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-red-years-of-cahiers-du-cinema-1968-1973-9789463721011","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}