{"product_id":"eternal-current-events-isbn-9781965874004","title":"Eternal Current Events","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first English translation of Chris Marker’s early writings on film, religion, philosophy, politics, and art.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore making his first films in the 1950s, Chris Marker was a regular contributor to the Paris-based magazine \u003ci\u003eEsprit\u003c\/i\u003e from 1946 to 1952. Unbound by genre or form, Marker's pieces range from short stories, essays, poems, and reviews to fabricated reportage and invented news affairs, all gemmed with the hallmarks of his style: a blurring of reality and imagination, a wry sense of humor, a sustained political engagement, and, of course, a limitless curiosity for animal life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEternal Current Events\u003c\/i\u003e marks the first time these exemplary works are available in English, published in an adapted facsimile of the original periodical. In these short selections, what one encounters is less a past life before his turn toward cinema than a preamble to his celebrated body of work. Moving images did not replace Marker’s production as a writer but were incorporated into it. Before the “imaginary films” there were “imaginary current events”; before the travels through time in \u003ci\u003eLa Jetée\u003c\/i\u003e there was a bulletin rethinking the psychogeography of the around-the-world trip; and before the musings on a Japanese temple consecrated to cats in \u003ci\u003eSans Soleil\u003c\/i\u003e, there was a summary report on the theological implications of the 1952 Parisian Cat Fair. Marker did not just begin his career as a writer, he remained one throughout his life.\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTranslator’s Note\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Deviant Musician\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNews Brief\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCross My Heart and Hop a Train\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Dog and the Bread\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eImported from America\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Three Little Pigs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Living and the Dead\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e[And while we wait for a classless society?]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e[But let's get back to serious matters]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRegarding Earthly Paradise\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Lecture by Louis Aragon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eImaginary Current Events (1)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEternal Current Events\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Separated\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Skinny Cows\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Fat Cows\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Medium Cows\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNewsreel (1)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eN.B.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Apolitician of the Month I\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Apolitician of the Month II\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNewsreel (2)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRomancero of the Mountain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLes Enfants Terribles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eImaginary Current Events (2)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChronicle of Fascism (continued)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe Have a President\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e[We've seen it, every person has a point of entry…]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn Jazz Considered as a Prophecy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSarter Noster\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScience and Life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCats are People Too\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTill the End of Time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eChris Marker was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. He is best known for his films \u003ci\u003eLa Jetée\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Grin Without a Cat\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSans Soleil\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Inpatient Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233151299813,"sku":"NP9781965874004","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781965874004.jpg?v=1767726394","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/eternal-current-events-isbn-9781965874004","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}