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In this authoritative new history, Emilie Bickerton explores the evolution and impact of Cahiers du Cinéma, from its early years, to its late-sixties radicalization, its internationalization, and its response to the television age of the seventies and eighties. Showing how the story of Cahiers continues to resonate with critics, practitioners and the film-going public, A Short History of Cahiers du Cinéma is a testimony to the extraordinary legacy and archive these 'collected pages of a notebook' have provided for the world of cinema.
Reviews
“It was 'the last modernist project', Emilie Bickerton says in this deft account of the real life and virtual death of Cahiers du cinema. The cinema itself lived and died in its pages, and it would be hard to imagine a better brief guide to the magazine's positions and polemics than this intelligent and sharply focused book.”
“Valuable and highly informative.”
“The French New Wave directors all came from Cahiers du Cinéma, a magazine that turned film criticism upside down in the 1950s. The salvos of its sagacity are finely charted by Bickerton, who also laments the recent slide into dumbed-down mediocrity.”
“What I love is Bickerton’s certainty and courage ... Bickerton does a well-told, thoroughly researched job.”
“Compelling ... a reminder that contemporary film criticism could do with being more unapologetically clever—more ingenious, more argumentative, more French.”
“Has many of the ingredients of a good thriller ... Emilie Bickerton’s alert prose manages to convey the drama and passionate confrontation of ideas, and she shows a keen eye for revealing detail.”
“Emilie Bickerton has done a valuable and highly informative job.”
“Tantalisingly concise ... A reminder that contemporary film criticism could do with being more unapologetically clever—more ingenious, more argumentative, more French.”
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