- Published: 16 January 2024
- ISBN: 9781635901986
- Imprint: MIT Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 216
- RRP: $40.00
Footlights
Critical Notebook 19701982
- Published: 16 January 2024
- ISBN: 9781635901986
- Imprint: MIT Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 216
- RRP: $40.00
"Serge Daney was the end of criticism as I understood it."
—Jean-Luc Godard
"Serge Daney knew something about cinema that no one else knew."
—Olivier Assayas
"Perched well above cinema studies, Serge Daney wrote and spoke of films in thrilling sentences, unrivalled in insight, moral fervor and sheer genius. Easily the best critic of his day."
—Dudley Andrew, Yale University
"Daney was the most significant writer to emerge from the generational milieu that gave rise to the French New Wave...Our own era is eager to beautify or sensationalize suffering, but Daney offers a different vision, best exemplified by his active gaze. He insists that we take the image seriously as not just a productive way of looking at art, but as a way of better understanding our own place in life."
—Beatrice Loayza, Bookforum