Books in the Harvard Film Studies series

Providing an understanding of the important changes that took place in cinema and film criticism in the 1960s and beyond, this book looks at the French film journal "Cahiers du Cinema" and its contribution to the new directions in film-making and film criticism which began in the 1960s.

David Bordwell's new book is at once a history of film criticism, an analysis of how critics interpret film, and a proposal for an alternative program for film studies. It is an anatomy of film criticism meant to reset the agenda for film scholarship.