Revisioning Europe

The Films of John Berger and Alain Tanner

AvJerry White

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

Revisioning Europe is among the few existing English-language discussions of the films made by British novelist John Berger and Swiss film director Alain Tanner. It brings to light a political cinema that was unsentimental about the possibilities of revolutionary struggle and unsparing in its critique of the European left, and at the same time optimistic about the ability of radicalism - and radical art - to transform the world.Jerry White argues that Berger and Tanner's work is preoccupied with ideas that were both central to the Enlightenment and at the same time characteristically Swiss. Translations of previously unpublished essays by both John Berger and Alain Tanner are included as appendices.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-01-31
Mått:152 x 226 x 17 mm
Vikt:400 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cinemas Off Centre
Antal sidor:254
Förlag:University of Calgary Press
ISBN:9781552385500

Utforska kategorier

Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Jerry White is Canada Research Chair in European Studies at Dalhousie University. He is the author of The Radio Eye: Cinema in the North Atlantic, 1958-1988 and Of This Place and Elsewhere: The Films and Photography of Peter Mettler, editor of The Cinema of Canada, and co-editor of North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema since 1980.

Innehållsförteckning

Table of Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1: Berger and Tanner before Berger and Tanner 49 2: La Salamandre 89 3: Le Milieu du monde 117 4: Jonas qui aura 25 ans en lâan 2000 149 Conclusion 185 Appendix 1: âTÃ©lÃ©-Aphorismes,â by Alain Tanner 209 Appendix 2: âVers Le Milieu du monde,â by John Berger 225 Bibliography 231 Sources for the films on video 237 Index 239