Footlights
Critical Notebook
$39.53
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
16 January 2024
Summary
The early essays of the most influential French film critic of the post-68 period.
The Footlights (1983) was the first book by Serge Daney, a film critic admired in his lifetime by Gilles Deleuze and Jean-Luc Godard and recognized since his premature death in 1992 as the most important French writer on film after Andre Bazin. The Footlights stands apart in Daney’s body of work as the only collection of his essays he conceived of as a book, organizing his seminal piec…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781635901986 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1635901987 |
| Author: | Serge Daney, Nicholas Elliott |
| Publisher: | Semiotext (E) |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 16 January 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents |
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About The Author
Serge Daney
Serge Daney became the editor of Cahiers du Cinema in 1974. In 1981, he left Cahiers and wrote about visual culture for Liberation, turning his attention to television and coverage of the Gulf War. He collaborated with Claire Denis on a documentary film, Jacques Rivette, le veilleur (1990). He died of AIDS-related causes in 1992.
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