Alain Bergala, the former chief editor of Cahiers du cinéma, is a critic, educator, and curator of exhibitions on cinema. He teaches at the University of Paris III and has headed the French national film and education program Le cinéma à l'école. He developed the DVD series L'Eden cinéma and, among other topics, has published on the aesthetics of cinema and the work of Jean-Luc Godard and Luis Bunuel.

The Cinema Hypothesis is actually an erudite and absorbing deliberation on cinema's receding cultural status, and a passionate appeal for its rescue...

Alain Bergala, the former chief editor of Cahiers du cinéma, is a critic, educator, and curator of exhibitions on cinema. He teaches at the University of Paris III and has headed the French national film and education program Le cinéma à l'école. He developed the DVD series L'Eden cinéma and, among other topics, has published on the aesthetics of cinema and the work of Jean-Luc Godard and Luis Bunuel.

The Cinema Hypothesis is actually an erudite and absorbing deliberation on cinema's receding cultural status, and a passionate appeal for its rescue...

Alain Bergala, the former chief editor of Cahiers du cinéma, is a critic, educator, and curator of exhibitions on cinema. He teaches at the University of Paris III and has headed the French national film and education program Le cinéma à l'école. He developed the DVD series L'Eden cinéma and, among other topics, has published on the aesthetics of cinema and the work of Jean-Luc Godard and Luis Bunuel.

The Cinema Hypothesis is actually an erudite and absorbing deliberation on cinema's receding cultural status, and a passionate appeal for its rescue...