LIGHT READINGS

In Light Readings: Film Criticism and Screen Arts, leading film critic Chris Darke re-visits his writing over recent years to address important questions emerging out of the changes effecting film and digital media. Was the 1990s the decade in which cinema as a medium and collective experience finally became subsumed within a converging universe of multiple media? Should the cinema be reconsidered to accommodate the new possibilities of the moving image? This insightful collection of reviews and essays also includes interviews with Atom Egoyan, Bill Viola, Olivier Assayas, Jacques Audiard and Xavier Beauvois.

January 2000
208 pages

978-1-903364-07-9 (pbk)

£12.99

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Chris Darke is a regular contributor to Sight and Sound, mute and The Independent and the author of Alphaville. His other activities include screenwriting, cinema programming and producing arts reportage for television.

‘An inspired collection of essays on the interface of new medias and their mutual interfaces.’
Film Comment

‘Darke establishes his credentials as a cineaste … Compulsive reading for serious film students.’
Hotdog

‘The writing is clear, informative and frequently perceptive. Darke is also a skilled and imaginative wordsmith and always a pleasure to read … The present anthology will serve as a useful reference for students and amateurs of the moving image.’
Contemporary magazine