Postcards from the Cinema
Contributors: Paul Grant (Translator)
Edition: Tra edition
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Published: March 20, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781845206512
Subjects: Cultural studies; Films, cinema; Film Criticism; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book; Film & Video - General; Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Film critics; France; Interviews; Motion pictures
Description: "Postcards from the Cinema is the book Serge Daney, one of the greatest of film critics, never wrote. It is based around an interview that was to be the starting point for a book, a project cut short by Daney's death. Postcards turns a history of cinema into a profound meditation on the art and politics of film." "Daney's passionate and lucid engagement with film, combined with his concern for journalistic clarity, effectively created film criticism as a genre. Equally at home with the theories of Deleuze, Lacan and Debord as he was with the movie-making of Bunuel, Godard and Ray, Daney was also a fan of Jerry Lewis and Hitchcock. At the same time - and before his time - championed the critical analysis of television and other audio-visual media." "Long-awaited, this is the first book-length translation of Daney's work, testimony to a life lived with a fierce love of film."-- frontpiece.