{"product_id":"alex-bollen-motherdom-copy","title":"Serge Daney: Footlights","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSemiotext (E), 2023, softcover, 224 pages, 15.3 x 22.8 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe early essays of the most influential French film critic of the post-68 period.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Footlights\u003c\/span\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. \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Footlights\u003c\/span\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 \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCahiers du Cinéma\u003c\/span\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 \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSaló\u003c\/span\u003e to Spielberg's \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eJaws\u003c\/span\u003e, and on the difference between film language and television discourse, Daney offers a definitive portrait of an era of radical hope and disappointment.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"slot product-about 9781584351115 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened\" id=\"seemore-0\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-listen-to-a-clip\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-also-in-series\"\u003e\n\u003ca name=\"#alsoinseries\" id=\"alsoinseries\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"slot series-also-in 9781584351115 isbn-related show\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-series-also-in\" id=\"in-series\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57506265104768,"sku":null,"price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/815rRVJBFHL._SY522.jpg?v=1772458994","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/alex-bollen-motherdom-copy","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}