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Exploring the work of three visionary auteurs deeply invested in the political possibilities of film.

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An impressive book people will read for all kinds of reasons, academic and otherwise, not least of which is its bold proposal that the future is unthinkable without cinema. -- Richard Dienst, author of Still Life in Real Time: Theory After Television ... Pavsek renews our faith in the utopian possibilities of truly political art. -- Patrick Reagan, Yale University Screening the Past

Table of Contents
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Idea of Cinema1. What Has Come to Pass for Cinema: From Early to Late Godard2. Kidlat Tahimik's "Third World Projector"3. The Actuality of Cinema: Alexander KlugeEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

The Utopia of Film

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      Publisher Columbia University Press
      Published 29 January 2013
      ISBN-13 9780231160995
      978-0231160995
      ISBN-10 0231160992
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Exploring the work of three visionary auteurs deeply invested in the political possibilities of film.

      Trade Review
      An impressive book people will read for all kinds of reasons, academic and otherwise, not least of which is its bold proposal that the future is unthinkable without cinema. -- Richard Dienst, author of Still Life in Real Time: Theory After Television ... Pavsek renews our faith in the utopian possibilities of truly political art. -- Patrick Reagan, Yale University Screening the Past

      Table of Contents
      List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Idea of Cinema1. What Has Come to Pass for Cinema: From Early to Late Godard2. Kidlat Tahimik's "Third World Projector"3. The Actuality of Cinema: Alexander KlugeEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

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