Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction The Politics of Representation: Cahiers du Cinéma 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 Cinéma, 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 Cinéma: ‘Cinema, Ideology, Politics (for Poretta-Terme)’ (October 1971)

21 Pascal Bonitzer: ‘Off-screen Space’ (December 1971-January-February1972)

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 Cinéma Nos 210–39, March 1969-June 1972, in English translation

Appendix 2 Cahiers du Cinéma in the 1950s, the 1960s and the later 1970s

Index of names and film titles