{"product_id":"footlights-book-serge-daney-9781635901986","title":"Footlights","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe early essays of the most influential French film critic of the post-68 period.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Footlights\u003c\/i\u003e (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. \u003ci\u003eThe Footlights\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eCahiers du Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eSal\u003c\/i\u003e to Spielberg's \u003ci\u003eJaws\u003c\/i\u003e, and on the difference between film language and television discourse, Daney offers a definitive portrait of an era of radical hope and disappointment.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49752176361745,"sku":"NGR9781635901986","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1635901987.jpg?v=1751409596","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/footlights-book-serge-daney-9781635901986","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}