Roland Barthes’ Cinema, by Philip Watts, Dudley Andrew, Yves Citton, Vincent Debaene, and Sam Di Iorio eds (2016)
Offers the first systematic English-language critical treatment of Barthes’ writing on cinema. Provides detailed analysis of the various stages of Barthes’s intellectual itinerary. Examines Barthes’s explicit and implicit dialogue with France’s leading postwar film critic, André Bazin. Includes nine translated texts written by Barthes about cinema, as well as an exclusive interview with renown public intellectual Jacues Raciére.