β Scribed by Serge Daney
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Postcards from the Cinema is the book Serge Daney, one of the greatest of film critics, never wrote. It is based around an interview that was to be the starting point for a book, a project cut short by Daney's death. Postcards turns a history of cinema into a profound meditation on the art and politics of film. Daney's passionate and lucid engagement with film, combined with his concern for journalistic clarity, effectively created film criticism as a genre. Equally at home with the theories of Deleuze, Lacan and Debord as he was with the movie-making of Bunuel, Godard and Ray, Daney was also a fan of Jerry Lewis and Hitchcock. At the same time - and before his time - he championed the critical analysis of television and other audio-visual media. Long-awaited, this is the first book-length translation of Daney's work, testimony to a life lived with a fierce love of film.
Cover ......Page 1
Contents ......Page 8
Introduction: The History of an Absence ......Page 12
Preface to the French Edition ......Page 22
Part I ......Page 26
1. The Tracking Shot in Kapo ......Page 28
Part II ......Page 48
2. Cine-biography ......Page 50
Part III ......Page 98
3. Cinema and History ......Page 100
4. Cinephile in Transit ......Page 108
5. A Night in Ronda ......Page 112
6. Cinema Would be the Promise of the World ......Page 118
7. Cinema and Communism: In Defense of a Counter Society ......Page 128
8. Experience: From Cahiers du cinΓ©ma to LibΓ©ration ......Page 134
9. Cinema and Television: Departure and Return ......Page 142
10. The Two Cinemas ......Page 150
Notes ......Page 156
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