Enduring Images: A Future History of New Left Cinema

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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 cinemati

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"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 Adamsons 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

"Adamson's book is the best overall history to date of this important subject."CHOICE

"The interventions of Enduring Images, taken together, seek resistance to the present, as Deleuze would have it, and in so doing remain, productively, fascinatingly, unfinished."Film Quarterly

"Adamson conveys a hope that cinema, especially at the fringes, will continue to play an important role in radicalizing its viewers."Hyperallergic

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