Desires for Reality

<p> As with many aspects of European cultural life film was galvanized and transformed by the revolutionary fervor of 1968. This groundbreaking study provides a full account of the era's cinematic crises innovations and provocations as well as the social and aesthetic contexts in which they appeared. The author mounts a genuinely fresh analysis of a contested period in which everything from the avant-garde experiments of Godard Pasolini Schroeter and Fassbinder to the low cinematic genres of horror pornography and the Western reflected the cultural upheaval of youth in revolt-a cinema for the barricades.</p>