| Desires for Reality: Radicalism and Revolution in Western European Film Contributor(s): Halligan, Benjamin (Author) |
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ISBN: 1785331108 ISBN-13: 9781785331107 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $128.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - History | Europe - General - History | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| LCCN: 2015035795 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.15 lbs) 262 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As with many aspects of European cultural life, film was galvanized and transformed by the revolutionary fervor of 1968. This groundbreaking study provides a full account of the era's cinematic crises, innovations, and provocations, as well as the social and aesthetic contexts in which they appeared. The author mounts a genuinely fresh analysis of a contested period in which everything from the avant-garde experiments of Godard, Pasolini, Schroeter, and Fassbinder to the "low" cinematic genres of horror, pornography, and the Western reflected the cultural upheaval of youth in revolt--a cinema for the barricades. |
Contributor Bio(s): Halligan, Benjamin: - Benjamin Halligan is the Director of the Doctoral College of the University of Wolverhampton. His publications include Michael Reeves (2003), and the co-edited collections The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop (2013) and The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment (2015). |