[ecrea] Enduring Images: A Future History of New Left Cinema

We would like to announce a new publication from the University of 
Minnesota Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*Enduring Images***

  A Future History of New Left Cinema

*Morgan Adamson***

*_http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/enduring-images_**__*


"/Enduring Images/ is a powerful and nuanced re-reading of the New Left, 
viewed through the triptych of critical theory, radical politics, and 
documentary film."—Jonathan Kahana, author of /Intelligence Work/ and 
editor of /The Documentary Film Reader/

"Morgan Adamson’s elegant and fascinating study shows how the cinematic 
image was an important weapon in the arsenal of revolutionary movements 
of the 1960s and ‘70s. Despite the effects of the counter-revolution 
that followed, the legacy of those cinematic experiments is still alive 
today, a resource for generating new ways of knowing the world and, 
perhaps, transforming it."—Michael Hardt, Duke University

An integrated look at the political films of the 1960s and ‘70s and how 
the New Left transformed cinema A timely reassessment of political film 
culture in the 1960s and ‘70s, Enduring Images examines international 
cinematic movements of the New Left in light of sweeping cultural and 
economic changes of that era. Looking at new forms of cinematic 
resistance—including detailed readings of particular films, collectives, 
and movements—Morgan Adamson makes a case for cinema’s centrality to the 
global New Left. Enduring Images details how student, labor, 
anti-imperialist, Black Power, and second-wave feminist movements broke 
with auteur cinema and sought to forge local and international 
solidarities by producing political essay films, generating new ways of 
being and thinking in common. Adamson produces a comparative and 
theoretical account of New Left cinema that engages with discussions of 
work, debt, information, and resistance. Enduring Images argues that the 
cinemas of the New Left are sites to examine, through the lens of 
struggle, the reshaping of global capitalism during the pivotal moment 
in which they were made, while at the same time exploring how these 
movements endure in contemporary culture and politics.  Including 
in-depth discussions of Third Cinema in Argentina, feminist cinema in 
Italy, Newsreel movements in the United States, and cybernetics in early 
video, Enduring Images is an essential examination of the political 
films of the 1960s and ‘70s.

*Morgan Adamson*is assistant professor of media and cultural studies at 
Macalester College.

*University of Minnesota Press**|  October 2018 | 304pp | 9781517903091 
| Paperback | £20.99**

*Price subject to change.


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