Desires for Reality

Benjamin Halligan is the Director of the Doctoral College of the University of Wolverhampton. His publications include Michael Reeves (2003), and the co-edited collections The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop (2013) and The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment (2015).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. "All All All"Chapter 2. Prehistory - from Late Neo-Realism to the New WavesChapter 3. Crises of Post-Bazinian RealismChapter 4. Film and RevolutionismConclusion: Seized, Freed, Remade and DeployedFilmographyReferencesIndex

"As a history of aesthetic priorities, formal shifts, and creative possibilities in broadly leftist cinema in Europe of the 1960s, the book is authoritative. The early chapters about the pre-history of the film production in question offer valuable insights into the influence of neo-realism on European post-war cinema, and the importance of concepts of Bazinian realism on the French New Wave specifically. The quality of the film analysis throughout is excellent." French Studies