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Performing Arts History & Criticism

Revisioning Europe

The Films of John Berger and Alain Tanner

by (author) Jerry White

Publisher
University of Calgary Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2012
Category
History & Criticism, Political, Western
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781552385500
    Publish Date
    Jan 2012
    List Price
    $34.95
  • 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 Translations of previously unpublished essays by both John Berger and Alain Tanner are included as appendices.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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