The Red Years of Cahiers du Cinéma (1968-1973) gives 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.
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"The Red Years carefully and convincingly argues that the Marxist Cahiers also maintained a commitment to Bazin and to realism more broadly." Sam Di Iorio reviews Daniel Fairfax's The Red Years of Cahiers du Cinéma (1968–1973), from @AmsterdamUPress: https://t.co/ueLdU1RQFx https://t.co/K7u0HPTsJz
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Daniel Fairfax's two-part history, THE RED YEARS OF CAHIERS DU CINÉMA (1968 - 1973), traces the enduring influence of the foundational French journal's most militant years. Paul Grant takes a look at the intersections of cinema & politics in the new book. https://t.co/aEi1DsTz8s
"During its 'red years, ' the core contributors to Cahiers du cinéma 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 Cahiers in its Marxist phase."
- Philip Rosen, Brown University
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