Footlights Critical Notebook 19701982
Footlights Critical Notebook 19701982 by Serge Daney, published by MIT Press on December 12, 2023, is a collection of early essays from one of the most influential French film critics of the post-68 period. This edition, comprising 216 pages, presents Daney’s seminal pieces originally published in Cahiers du Cinéma, organized thematically and enriched with original texts that reflect his personal insights on the complexities of film criticism during a transformative era.
Readers will find a thoughtful exploration of film and its cultural implications, as Daney addresses notable figures such as Godard and examines a range of films from Pasolini’s Saló to Spielberg’s Jaws. The essays delve into the intersections of film language and television discourse, while also engaging with the philosophical underpinnings of Lacanian theory and the political aspirations of Maoist thought. This book serves as a critical reflection on the hopes and disappointments of a generation of film enthusiasts, providing a unique perspective on the performing arts and their relationship with politics and society.
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The early essays of the most influential French film critic of the post-68 period.
The Footlights (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. The Footlights 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 Cahiers du Cinéma 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 Saló to Spielberg’s Jaws, and on the difference between film language and television discourse, Daney offers a definitive portrait of an era of radical hope and disappointment.
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