Halligan, B 2016, Desires for reality : radicalism and revolution in Western European film , Berghahn Books, New York and London.
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Abstract
Desires for Reality: Radicalism and Revolution in Western European Film addresses a provocative and controversial period of European cinema: the high-tide of dissenting and militant film-making, of 1968, and its aftermath. This study offers an immersion in the revolutionary fervour that gripped the intellectual left, and the confrontational, unbound, remarkable and at times impenetrable films that resulted from a synchronisation of sexual liberation, political radicalism and social upheaval.
The roster of acclaimed auteurs involved, including Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Philippe Garrel, Michelangelo Antonioni and Werner Schroeter, indicates that few post-war film-makers were unaffected. Even “low culture” cinema (horror, psychedelia, pornography and Spaghetti Westerns) was reoriented towards youth in revolt while taking advantage of the new-found liberties of the “permissive society”.
Desires for Reality seeks to revisit a moment in which cinema was life, and on the front line of the barricades, rather than entertainment.
Item Type: | Book |
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Themes: | Media, Digital Technology and the Creative Economy |
Schools: | Schools > School of Arts & Media > Arts, Media and Communication Research Centre |
Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
Refereed: | Yes |
ISBN: | 9781785331107 |
Funders: | Non funded research |
Depositing User: | B Halligan |
Date Deposited: | 20 Nov 2014 15:31 |
Last Modified: | 08 Oct 2018 11:13 |
URI: | http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/33078 |
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