Included in this anthology are revealing articles and interviews on the work of Godard, Resnais, Chabrol, Rohmer, Truffaut and Rivette, as well as polemical discussion of popular film-makers like Ray, Hitchcock and Losey.

Included in this anthology are revealing articles and interviews on the work of Godard, Resnais, Chabrol, Rohmer, Truffaut and Rivette, as well as polemical discussion of popular film-makers like Ray, Hitchcock and Losey.

This new volume in this influential series of anthologies covers the vibrant and turbulent period in which the editorial make-up and policy of the journal changed radically, and theory, history and politics dominated critical debate.

The uprising which shook France in May 1968 also had a revolutionary effect on the country's most prominent film journal. Under editors Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni, Cahiers du cinéma embarked on a militant turn that would govern the journal's work over the next five years. With a Marxist orientation inspired by the thinking of Louis Althusser, Jacques Lacan and Roland Barthes, the "red years" of Cahiers du cinéma produced a theoretical outpouring that was formative for the establishment of film studies as an academic discipline in the 1970s, and is still of vital relevance for the contemporary audiovisual landscape. It was also the seminal experience for a generation of critics who have dedicated the following half-century to the task of critically responding to the cinema. The Red Years of Cahiers du Cinéma (1968-1973) gives a historical overview of this period in the journal's history, combining biographical accounts of the critics who were involved with Cahiers in the post-1968 and theoretical explorations of the text they wrote.

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