Performing Arts History & Criticism
Revisioning Europe
The Films of John Berger and Alain Tanner
- Publisher
- University of Calgary Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2012
- Category
- History & Criticism, Political, Western
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781552385500
- Publish Date
- Jan 2012
- List Price
- $34.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781552385531
- Publish Date
- Apr 2013
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
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 Translations of previously unpublished essays by both John Berger and Alain Tanner are included as appendices.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 the author
Jerry White is an associate professor of film studies at the University of Alberta and a member of the education staff of the Telluride Film Festival. He is co-editor of North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema since 1980 (2002), editor of The Cinema of Canada (2006), and author of Of This Place and Elsewhere: The Films and Photography of Peter Mettler (2006). He is the former editor of the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies.
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