- Title
- The return of 1960s modernist cinema
- Creator
- Ford, Hamish
- Relation
- Studies in Australasian Cinema Vol. 5, Issue 2, p. 155-170
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/sac.5.2.155_1
- Publisher
- Intellect Ltd.
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- This article concerns the complex nature of post-war European film modernism’s historicity. According to András Bálint Kovács, this cinema rose in an arc starting from the mid-1950s, peaking in the 1960s, and slowly petering out by 1980. At its best such historicizing produces precise contextual detailing, rather than romantic-hermetic affirmation or subsequent backlash dismissal, in the process creating room for new accounts of films and filmmakers beyond their role in the heated politics of then-contemporary critical taste and the competitive linear regime of vanguard innovation. But we also need to look closely at the peculiarities of this particular modernist cinema’s apparent ‘past-ness’ as revealing crucial elements of modernism’s perennial (if variously contested or disavowed) power, challenge and attraction. This article explores the uncanny, untimely return of such cinema’s 1960s apogee, embedded in a very real past while also emerging from virtual futures, as it complicates anew our unstable present.
- Subject
- post war modernism; 1960s; temporality; aesthetic form; return; past
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1040730
- Identifier
- uon:13812
- Identifier
- ISSN:1750-3175
- Language
- eng
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