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These volumes give an overview of this period in the journal's history and its aftermath, combining biographical accounts of the critics who wrote for Cahiers in the post 1968 period with theoretical explorations of their key texts.
List of contents
Volume I: Ideology and Politics, Acknowledgements, A Note on Translations, Introduction, Part I Theories of Ideology, 1. Cinema/Ideologie/Critique: An Epistemological Break?, 2. Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni: Crossed Lives, 3.
Décalages:
Young Mr. Lincoln de John Ford, 4. La Vicariance du Pouvoir and the Battle of
Othon, 5. Technique et Ideologie 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 Post-
gauchiste Era: 1973-1981, 12. Bernard Eisenschitz: Cinema, Communism and History, 13. Jean-Louis Comolli: A Theoretical Practice of Political Cinema,
Volume II: Aesthetics and Ontology, Part III Questions of Aesthetics, 14. Encounters with Structuralism, 15. Beyond Structuralism: Film Form and
Écriture, 16. Re-reading Classical Cinema, 17. The Defense and Critique of Cinematic Modernism, 18. Encountering the World Through Cinema, 19. The Film Aesthetics of Jacques Aumont, 20. Two
Ciné-fils: Pascal Kane and Serge Daney, Part IV Encounters with Ontology, 21. The Bazinian Legacy, 22. Jean-Pierre Oudart and Suture, 23. Realism and Psychoanalysis in Pierre Baudry, 24. Partial Vision: The Theory and Filmmaking of Pascal Bonitzer, 25. The Brain is the Screen:
Cahiers du cinéma and Gilles Deleuze, 26. Film Ontology in the Age of New Media, Conclusion, Index of Names Cited.
About the author
Daniel Fairfax is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and an editor of the online film journal
Senses of Cinema.
