Cahiers Du Cinéma, The 1950s by Jim Hillier

A concise study of the influential French film magazine during the 1950s, tracing how its critics’ polemical writing, theoretical debates and reviews shaped the emergence of auteur theory and the New Wave; the book contextualizes key contributors, highlights recurring themes such as realism, montage and the relationship to Hollywood, and offers selected translations and commentary to show how the magazine remade film criticism and left a lasting cultural legacy.

Purchase from Bookshop.org