Revisioning Europe

The Films of John Berger and Alain Tanner

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by Jerry White

Type

Essays

Subject

Director > Alain Tanner

Keywords

Alain Tanner, Europe, radical

Publishing date

2012

Publisher

University of Calgary Press

Collection

Cinemas Off Centre

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 254 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-55238-550-0

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Book Presentation:
Revisioning Europe 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 Tanners 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 Translations of previously unpublished essays by both John Berger and Alain Tanner are included as appendices.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 Canada Research Chair in European Studies at Dalhousie University. He is the author of The Radio Eye: Cinema in the North Atlantic, 1958-1988

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