{"product_id":"footlights-critical-notebook-19701982-9781635901986","title":"Footlights: Critical Notebook 19701982","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe early essays of the most influential French film critic of the post-68 period.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Footlights\u003c\/i\u003e (1983) was the first book by Serge Daney, a film critic admired in his lifetime by Gilles Deleuze and Jean-Luc Godard and recognized since his premature death in 1992 as the most important French writer on film after André Bazin. \u003ci\u003eThe Footlights\u003c\/i\u003e stands apart in Daney's body of work as the only collection of his essays he conceived of as a book, organizing his seminal pieces from \u003ci\u003eCahiers du Cinéma\u003c\/i\u003e by theme and linking them with original texts that reflect in a personal voice on the doubts, battles, and illuminations of a generation of film lovers inspired by the explorations of Lacanian theory and roused by the collective aspirations of Maoist dogma. In pieces on fellow travelers Godard and Straub\/Huillet, on films ranging from Pasolini's \u003ci\u003eSaló\u003c\/i\u003e to Spielberg's \u003ci\u003eJaws\u003c\/i\u003e, and on the difference between film language and television discourse, Daney offers a definitive portrait of an era of radical hope and disappointment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSerge Daney became the editor of \u003ci\u003eCahiers du Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e in 1974. In 1981, he left \u003ci\u003eCahiers\u003c\/i\u003e and wrote about visual culture for \u003ci\u003eLibération\u003c\/i\u003e, turning his attention to television and coverage of the Gulf War. He collaborated with Claire Denis on a documentary film, \u003ci\u003eJacques Rivette, le veilleur\u003c\/i\u003e (1990). He died of AIDS-related causes in 1992.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50718867030290,"sku":"9781635901986","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ed1932cb-c81b-40c2-8ae3-265a4f61cf0f.jpg?v=1734653067","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/footlights-critical-notebook-19701982-9781635901986","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}