Desires for Reality: Radicalism and Revolution in Western European Film

by Benjamin Halligan

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789200865
• ISBN13: 9781789200867
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"