Philip Watts was Professor of French at Columbia University and Chair of the department from 2008 to 2012. A specialist of twentieth-century French literature and film, he is the author of Allegories of the Purge: How Literature Responded to the Postwar Trials of Writers and Intellectuals in France and co-editor of Jacques Rancière: History, Politics, Aesthetics.

this is a rich and nuanced intervention which changes how we see Roland Barthes and film.

• Editors' Preface Introduction Chapter One - A Degraded Spectacle Chapter Two - Refresh the Perception of the World Chapter Three - Barthes and Bazin Chapter Four- Another Revolution Chapter Five - Exiting the Movie Theater Chapter Six - The Melodramatic Imagination Conclusion - From Barthes to Rancière? Interview With Jacques Rancière Nine Texts on the Cinema by Roland Barthes Barthes and Cinema: A Bibliography Index

Philip Watts was Professor of French at Columbia University and Chair of the department from 2008 to 2012. A specialist of twentieth-century French literature and film, he is the author of Allegories of the Purge: How Literature Responded to the Postwar Trials of Writers and Intellectuals in France and co-editor of Jacques Rancière: History, Politics, Aesthetics.

this is a rich and nuanced intervention which changes how we see Roland Barthes and film.

• Editors' Preface Introduction Chapter One - A Degraded Spectacle Chapter Two - Refresh the Perception of the World Chapter Three - Barthes and Bazin Chapter Four- Another Revolution Chapter Five - Exiting the Movie Theater Chapter Six - The Melodramatic Imagination Conclusion - From Barthes to Rancière? Interview With Jacques Rancière Nine Texts on the Cinema by Roland Barthes Barthes and Cinema: A Bibliography Index