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Benjamin Halligan - Desires for Reality: Radicalism and Revolution in Western European Film - 9781785331107 - V9781785331107
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Desires for Reality: Radicalism and Revolution in Western European Film

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Description for Desires for Reality: Radicalism and Revolution in Western European Film Hardcover. This is a fresh and groundbreaking account of the innovations and provocations of the "cinema of 1968," and its social and aesthetic contexts. Halligan offers a genuinely fresh analysis of films reflecting the cultural upheaval of youth in revolt-cinema that did not merely entertain, but was made the barricades. Num Pages: 248 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJPK; APFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 237 x 19. Weight in Grams: 534.

As with many aspects of European cultural life, film was galvanized and transformed by the revolutionary fervor of 1968. This groundbreaking study provides a full account of the era’s cinematic crises, innovations, and provocations, as well as the social and aesthetic contexts in which they appeared. The author mounts a genuinely fresh analysis of a contested period in which everything from the avant-garde experiments of Godard, Pasolini, Schroeter, and Fassbinder to the “low” cinematic genres of horror, pornography, and the Western reflected the cultural upheaval of youth in revolt—a cinema for the barricades.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
262
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785331107
SKU
V9781785331107
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Ref
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About Benjamin Halligan
Benjamin Halligan is the Director of the Doctoral College of the University of Wolverhampton. His publications include Michael Reeves (2003), and the co-edited collections The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop (2013) and The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment (2015).

Reviews for Desires for Reality: Radicalism and Revolution in Western European Film
“As a history of aesthetic priorities, formal shifts, and creative possibilities in broadly leftist cinema in Europe of the 1960s, the book is authoritative. The early chapters about the pre-history of the film production in question offer valuable insights into the influence of neo-realism on European post-war cinema, and the importance of concepts of Bazinian realism on the French New ... Read more

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