Postcards from the Cinema

This work is translated by Paul Grant. <strong>Postcards from the Cinema</strong> is the bookSerge Daney one of the greatest of film critics never wrote. It is ... » 

This work is translated by Paul Grant. Postcards from the Cinema is the bookSerge Daney one of the greatest of film critics never wrote. It is basedaround an interview that was to be the starting point for a book a project cutshort by Daneys death. Postcards turns a history of cinema into a profoundmeditation on the art and politics of film. Daneys passionate and lucidengagement with film combined with his concern for journalistic clarityeffectively created film criticism as a genre. Equally at home with thetheories of Deleuze Lacan and Debord as he was with the moviemaking ofBunuel Godard and Ray Daney was also a fan of Jerry Lewis and Hitchcock. Atthe same time and before his time he championed the critical analysis oftelevision and other audiovisual media. Longawaited this is the first booklength translation of Daneys work testimony to a life lived with a fiercelove of film. «