Wayne State University Press 1968 and Global Cinema (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies)

Review (Referring to co-editor Christina Gerhardt's three recent publications, including 1968 and Global Cinema) an admirable achievement, and Gerhardt must be congratulated for her efforts in bringing this large body of scholarship to publication. It was obviously a labor of love, and Gerhardt deserves recognition as the intellectual leader of her field.-- (11/09/2020)The collection features significant new contributions that prevent it from being another Eurocentric/Francophilic work with reiterations of the known. It concentrates on East Asia, Europe's peripheries, lost archives and other geopolitical spaces that remained largely ignored in the existing accounts.-- (02/17/2021)A welcome contribution [to the field of Film and Media Studies] that confirms the centrality of cinematic praxis to the social movements that shaped the 'Long Sixties.'--David Fresko"The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture" (10/20/2020)Thrilling in intellectual rigor and scope, the books' accomplishment is an inestimable one for future studies of committed film and media, particularly those interested in Tricontinental theory, post-socialist Europe, and the worldwide South.--NECSUS (06/14/2020)1968 and Global Cinema ... enables the reader ... to consider the multifaceted ways in which screen cultures engaged with the long 1968 across national and linguistic boundaries. By putting the global cinemas of 1968 into dialogue with one another, the book makes an important contribution to the de-centering of Europe from the politics of 1968, especially given that decolonization and anti-imperialism were experienced far more immediately in countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.-- (02/01/2020)Every essay is original and significant, and taken together they amount to a very important achievement.--James Morrison"author of Auteur Theory and My Son John" (05/22/2018)Readers of this volume can choose what they want to get out of it: all contributions could be an entryway into the respective country's radical filmmaking cultures (and beyond); they could serve as a catalog of approaches to what radical forms of cinema meant in the respective context; they could serve as a starting point to explore the respective national cinematic tradition, as most contributions go beyond (both past and future of) the focus on 1968.--Friedemann Weidauer"Monatshefte" (12/01/2019)The book certainly provides cinema scholars with extensive and varied looks at previously neglected cultural and political movements, and it expands the era, helping readers to rethink concepts of the global and national as well as cinema's relationship to radical politics and the legacy of the long '68.--Anne Cunningham"Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature" (11/01/2019)This is an excellent and innovative study that expands the study of May 1968 beyond its familiar parameters into new and exciting fields, both temporal and geographic.--Paul Julian Smith"author of Queer Mexico: Cinema and Television since 2000 (Wayne State University Press, 2017)" (05/22/2018)Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of a watershed moment in twentieth-century political conflict, the impressive 1968 and Global Cinema seeks to broaden contemporary understanding of that moment beyond the French student uprisings, corresponding movements in the U.S., and the New Wave cinema explicitly invested in those struggles.-- (12/01/2019)This is a timely, informative, and stimulating set of essays, designed to deepen our understanding of 1968 as a watershed in cinematic aesthetics and global activist politics. An impressive collective accomplishment.-- (05/22/2018)This volume makes a welcome intervention into scholarship on political cinema, insisting on the centrality of anticolonial struggles and international solidarities to the category of world cinema. The editors have gathered an impressive range of essays which open out the histories and aesthetics of 1968 in genuinely exciting ways.-- (05/2