Thinking Back, Thinking Forward: Utopian Television: Rossellini, Watkins, and Godard Beyond Cinema, by Michael Cramer Jonathan Wright March 2018 Book Reviews Michael Cramer’s new book, Utopian Television, is an impressively constructed work of scholarship that does more than display certain utopian trends in its three subjects; it traces a discursive movement of uto...
Entering the Chiastic Multimedia: Encounters with Godard: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics, by James S. Williams Jonathan Wright December 2016 Book Reviews Much of Jean-Luc Godard’s most innovative intriguing work occurred after his period of militant Marxism in the late 1960s. Although far fewer of his “late period” films garnered the societal and critical acclai...