{"product_id":"a-short-history-of-cahiers-du-cinema-isbn-9781844677603","title":"A Short History of Cahiers du Cinema","description":"\u003ci\u003eCahiers du Cinéma\u003c\/i\u003e was the single most influential project in the history of film. Founded in 1951, it was responsible for establishing film as the ‘seventh art,’ equal to literature, painting or music, and it revolutionized film-making and writing. Its contributors would put their words into action: the likes of Godard, Truffaut, Rivette, Rohmer were to become some of the greatest directors of the age, their films part of the internationally celebrated \u003ci\u003enouvelle vague\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this authoritative new history, Emilie Bickerton explores the evolution and impact of \u003ci\u003eCahiers du Cinéma\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eCahiers\u003c\/i\u003e continues to resonate with critics, practitioners and the film-going public, \u003ci\u003eA Short History of Cahiers du Cinéma\u003c\/i\u003e is a testimony to the extraordinary legacy and archive these ‘collected pages of a notebook’ have provided for the world of cinema.“It was ‘the last modernist project’, Emilie Bickerton says in this deft account of the real life and virtual death of \u003ci\u003eCahiers du cinema\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.”—Michael Wood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Valuable and highly informative.”—Philip French, \u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The French New Wave directors all came from \u003ci\u003eCahiers du Cine?ma\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.”—Nigel Andrews, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What I love is Bickerton’s certainty and courage ... Bickerton does a well-told, thoroughly researched job.”—Nick James, \u003ci\u003eSight \u0026amp; Sound\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Compelling ... a reminder that contemporary film criticism could do with being more unapologetically clever—more ingenious, more argumentative, more French.”—\u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.”—\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Emilie Bickerton has done a valuable and highly informative job.”—Philip French, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Tantalisingly concise ... A reminder that contemporary film criticism could do with being more unapologetically clever—more ingenious, more argumentative, more French.”—Jonathan Romney, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmilie Bickerton\u003c\/b\u003e is a journalist and critic based in Paris. She is also on the editorial board of \u003ci\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302442356965,"sku":"NP9781844677603","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781844677603.jpg?v=1767720782","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-short-history-of-cahiers-du-cinema-isbn-9781844677603","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}