The writings of one of the greatest film critics of his generation on the auteur approach of
the French New Wave to a more structural examination of film. One of the greatest film critics
of his generation Serge Daney wrote for Cahiers du Cinéma before becoming a journalist for the
daily newspaper Libération. The writings collected in this volume reflect Daney's evolving
interests from the auteur approach of the French New Wave to a more structural examination of
film psychoanalysis and popular culture. Openly gay throughout his lifetime Daney rarely
wrote explicitly about homosexuality but his writings reflect a queer sensibility that would
influence future generations. In regular intellectual exchanges with Gilles Deleuze Félix
Guattari and Roland Barthes Daney wrote about cinema autobiographically while lyrically
analyzing the transition from modern cinema to postmodern media. A noted polymath Daney also
published books about tennis and Haiti's notorious Duvalier regime. His criticism is open and
challenging polyvocal and compulsively readable.
