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Overview"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 cinéma 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 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 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. Volume I focuses on the relationship of film with the spheres of ideology and politics." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Daniel FairfaxPublisher: Amsterdam University Press Imprint: Amsterdam University Press ISBN: 9789463728508ISBN 10: 9463728503 Pages: 426 Publication Date: 22 June 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"The Red Years of Cahiers du Cinéma (1968-1973) Volume I: Ideology and Politics Introduction Part I: Theories of Ideology Chapter 1. ""Cinéma/Idéologie/Critique"": an Epistemological Break? Chapter 2. Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni: Crossed Lives Chapter 3. Décalages: ""Young Mr. Lincoln de John Ford"" Chapter 4. ""La Vicariance du Pouvoir"" and the Battle of Othon Chapter 5. ""Technique et Idéologie"" by Jean-Louis Comolli Chapter 6. Afterlives of the Apparatus Part II: Engagements with Politics Chapter 7. The Radicalization of Cahiers du cinéma: 1963-1969 Chapter 8. Cahiers du cinéma and the Rapprochement with the PCF: 1969-1971 Chapter 9. Cahiers du cinéma's Turn to Maoism: 1971-1973 Chapter 10. Cahiers du cinéma and Jean-Luc Godard Chapter 11. Cahiers du cinéma in the ""Post-gauchiste"" Era: 1973-1981 Chapter 12. Bernard Eisenschitz: Cinema, Communism and History Chapter 13. Jean-Louis Comolli: A Theoretical Practice of Political Cinema."Reviews"""Daniel Fairfax's book is an impressive work that casts new light in the history of the most important French film journal, Cahiers du cinema. Thanks to exemplary archival work, Fairfax highlights some of the most fateful episodes of the 1960s and 1970s, and re-establishes the coherent yet complex trajectory of the journal, from its cinephilic beginnings to its conversion to militant politics. It is an exemplary study: the outcome of true dedication, astute critical sensibility and a great passion for film."" - Francesco Casetti, Yale University ""During its 'red years,' the core editors and contributors to Cahiers du cinéma rethought cinema in ways that have had lasting influence not only for contemporary film studies, but also in the history of Marxist and psychoanalytic theory. Daniel Fairfax now re-engages this moment with theoretical acumen, historical recontextualization and detailed primary research. 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 Cahiers in its Marxist phase."" - Philip Rosen, Brown University" Author InformationDaniel Fairfax is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and an editor of the online film journal Senses of Cinema (www.sensesofcinema.com). His research specialises in French film theory in the post-1968 period. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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