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“... in ‘an extremely theoretical way of talking about cinema’, and mentions Foucault, Lacan, Althusser and Lévi-Strauss before adding, in a sort of historical epigram, that Cahiers ‘introduced theory into cinema and cinema into academia’. Footlights, which brings together critical essays written between 1970 and 1982, was first published in France ...”

“... ambitions. They looked abroad, especially to the Continent and the likes of Lukács, Gramsci and Althusser, for remedies against what they saw as the tired empiricism and little Englandism of their predecessors. The aim, Stedman Jones explained in 1971, was to develop Marxism as both ‘a revolutionary political ideology’ and ‘an infant science ...”

“... Cinema thus became inseparable from ideology – a tendency reflected in Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni’s quasi-manifesto ‘Cinema/Ideology/Criucism’, and inspired in large measure by the work of Althusser. The overarching concept, which was to become the trademark of Cahiers thinking in the ...”

“... Hollywood reactionary philistinism, a quantity of which its incarnation, the Russian-born MGM boss Louis B. Mayer, gives us a mouthful twenty years later, reported in Lilian Ross’s Picture. Mayer’s colourful words come from a more embattled epoch; at the time of McCarthy it’s inconceivable that any Soviet director should have been given a Hollywood ...”

“... humaines within academe: among intellectuals, even the philosopher became less of an écrivain – Althusser entered literature only posthumously, with his autobiography. Foucault, and especially Derrida, though they philosophise about writing, do not write literature; neither showed any sign of wanting to be a novelist, playwright or poet. This is a major ...”

“... his intelligence, honesty, courage and vitality. The comparison with Voltaire was common (although Althusser preferred to compare him to Rousseau), and it was generally assumed that he had been a uniquely important figure in the culture of 20th-century France. This desire to protect the reputation and image of someone who is now accepted as a national figure ...”

“... this didn’t stop people from theorising. ‘Film academics who began to purge their shelves of Althusser and Lacan did not all hurry to the library to crank through microfilm. The empty shelf-space was quickly packed with works by Foucault and the Frankfurt School.’ Bordwell is not against all theory, of course, but the theory he likes is pretty much ...”

“... a massive importing of translated works by key Marxists beyond the Channel: Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Althusser, Debray, Adorno, Benjamin, Habermas, Bobbio and many others; and 2) making NLR as internationalist as possible in the problems it addressed. From 1974 I started to read NLR from cover to cover and was profoundly re-educated in the process. Here I came ...”

“... would have thought to see the Congress of Vienna praised as sensible and realistic, or expected Louis Napoleon to receive more favourable treatment than Proudhon or Bakunin? If the three Ages enjoy a well-nigh universal admiration, they have attracted less critical discussion than they deserve, as often happens in such cases. This is partly a matter of the ...”