Revisioning Europe: The Films of John Berger and Alain Tanner (Cinemas Off Centre, 3) - Softcover

White, Jerry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1552385507 ISBN 13: 9781552385500

Publisher: University of Calgary Press, 2012

Synopsis

Revisioning Europe :The Films of John Berger and Alain Tanner, is among the few existing English-language discussions of the films made by British novelist John Berger and Swiss film director Alain Tanner. It brings to light a political cinema that was unsentimental about the possibilities of revolutionary struggle and unsparing in its critique of the European left, and at the same time optimistic about the ability of radicalism - and radical art - to transform the world. Jerry White argues that Berger and Tanner's work is preoccupied with ideas that were both central to the Enlightenment and at the same time characteristically Swiss. Translations of previously unpublished essays by both John Berger and Alain Tanner are included as appendices.

About this title

About the Author:

Jerry White is Canada Research Chair in European Studies at Dalhousie University. He is the author of The Radio Eye: Cinema in the North Atlantic, 1958-1988 and Of This Place and Elsewhere: The Films and Photography of Peter Mettler, editor of The Cinema of Canada, and co-editor of North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema since 1980.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1552385507
• ISBN 13: 9781552385500
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 254