Footlights by Serge Daney
The early essays of the most influential French film critic of the post-68 period.The Footlights (1983) was the first book by Serge Daney, a film critic admired in his lifetime by Gilles Deleuze and Jean-Luc Godard and recognized since his premature death in 1992 as the most important French writer on film after Andre Bazin. The Footlights stands apart in Daney's body of work as the only collection of his essays he conceived of as a book, organizing his seminal pieces from Cahiers du Cinema by theme and linking them with original texts that reflect in a personal voice on the doubts, battles, and illuminations of a generation of film lovers inspired by the explorations of Lacanian theory and roused by the collective aspirations of Maoist dogma. In pieces on fellow travelers Godard and Straub/Huillet, on films ranging from Pasolini's Sal to Spielberg's Jaws, and on the difference between film language and television discourse, Daney offers a definitive portrait of an era of radical hope and disappointment.
Serge Daney was a journalist for the prominent film journal Cahiers du Cinéma, eventually becoming its editor-in-chief. He went on to write for the Libération newspaper and found the film magazine Trafic.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781635901986 |
| ISBN 10 | 1635901987 |
| Title | Footlights |
| Author | Serge Daney |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Semiotext (E) |
| Year published | 2023-12-19 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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