Revisioning Europe : : the films of John Berger and Alain Tanner / / Jerry White

Revisioning Europe is among the few existing English-language discussions of the films made by British novelist John Berger and Swiss film director Alain Tanner. It brings to light a political cinema that was unsentimental about the possibilities of revolutionary struggle and unsparing in its critiq...

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Place / Publishing House:Calgary, Alberta : : University of Calgary Press,, [2011].
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Berger, John Criticism and interpretation.
Tanner, Alain Criticism and interpretation.
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