Revisioning Europe :The Films of John Berger and Alain Tanner, is among the few existing English-language discussions of the films made by British novelist John Berger and Swiss film director Alain...Revisioning Europe :The Films of John Berger and Alain Tanner, 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 critique of the European left, and at the same time optimistic about the ability of radicalism - and radical art - to transform the world. Jerry White argues that Berger and Tanner's work is preoccupied with ideas that were both central to the Enlightenment and at the same time characteristically Swiss. Translations of previously unpublished essays by both John Berger and Alain Tanner are included as appendices.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1: Berger and Tanner before Berger and Tanner 49
2: La Salamandre 89
3: Le Milieu du monde 117
4: Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l?an 2000 149
Conclusion 185
Appendix 1: ?Télé-Aphorismes,? by Alain Tanner 209
Appendix 2: ?Vers Le Milieu du monde,? by John Berger 225
Bibliography 231
Sources for the films on video 237
Index 239
