Cahiers du Cinéma: 1969-1972

The Politics of Representation

Edited by Nick Browne

Edited by Jim Hillier

    • Preface
    • Acknowledgments
    • Introduction: The Politics of Representation: Cahiers du Cinéema 1969-72
    1. Jean Narboni, Sylvie Pierre, Jacques Rivette: ‘Montage’ (March 1969)
    2. Jean-Pierre Oudart: ‘Cinema and Suture’ (April-May 1969)
    3. Jean-Louis Comolli, Jean Narboni: ‘Cinema/Ideology/Criticism’ (October 1969)
    4. Pascal Bonitzer, Jean-Louis Comolli, Serge Daney, Jean Narboni, Jean-Pierre Oudart: ‘La Vie est à nous: A militant film’ (March 1970)
    5. Jean-Pierre Oudart, Jean Narboni, Jean-Louis Comolli: ‘Readings of Jancsó: Yesterday and Today’ (April 1970)
    6. Editorial: ‘Russia in the 20s (I)’ (May-June 1970)
    7. Serge Daney, Jean-Pierre Oudart: ‘Work, Reading, Pleasure’ (July 1970)
    8. Jean-Pierre Oudart: ‘Word Play, Master Play’ (August-September 1970)
    9. Editorial: ‘Japanese Cinema (1)’ (October 1970)
    10. Jean Narboni: ‘Vicarious Power’ (October 1970)
    11. Jean-Louis Comolli: ‘Film/Politics (2): L’Aveu: 15 Propositions’ (October 1970)
    12. Collective text: ‘Josef von Sternberg’s Morocco’ (November-December 1970)
    13. Collective Editorial Statement (Cahiers du Cinema, Cinéthique, Tel Quel): ‘Cinema, Literature, Politics’ (January-February 1971)
    14. Jean-Pierre Oudart: ‘The Reality Effect’ (March-April 1971)
    15. Jean-Pierre Oudart: ‘Notes for a Theory of Representation’ (May-June and July 1971)
    16. Jean-Louis Comolli: ‘Technique and Ideology: Camera, Perspective, Depth of Field’ (May-June and July 1971)
    17. Pascal Bonitzer: ‘ “Reality” of Denotation’ (May-June 1971)
    18. Jacques Aumont, Pascal Bonitzer, Jean Narboni, Jean-Pierre Oudart: ‘The New Babylon: the “Commune” Metaphor’ (July and October 1971)
    19. Jean-Pierre Oudart: ‘A Lacking Discourse’ (October 1971)
    20. Cahiers du Cinema: ‘Cinema, Ideology, Politics (for Poretta-Terme)’ (October 1971)
    21. Pascal Bonitzer: ‘Off-screen Space’ (December 1971-January-February 1972)
    22. Serge Daney, Jean-Pierre Oudart: ‘The Name of the Author (on the “place” of Death in Venice)’ (December 1971-January-February 1972)
    23. Pascal Kané: ‘Re-reading Hollywood Cinema: Sylvia Scarlett‘ (May-June 1972)
    24. Editorial: ‘Politics and Ideological Class Struggle’ (December 1971-January-February 1972)
    • Appendix 1: Guide to Cahiers du Cinema Nos 210-39, March 1969-June 1972, in English translation
    • Appendix 2: Cahiers du Cinema in the 1950s, the 1960s and the later 1970s
    • Index of names and film titles
  • Cover: Cahiers du Cinéma: 1969-1972

Jim Hillier is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Bulmershe College of Higher Education, Reading, England.