Revisioning Europe: The Films of John Berger and Alain Tanner: Cinemas Off Centre

Revisioning Europe is among the few existing English language discussions of the films made by British novelist John Berger and Swiss film director Alain Tanner. It brings to light a political cinema that was both unsentimental about the possibilities of revolutionary struggle and unsparing in its critique of the European left, and at the same time optimistic about the ability of radicalism—while radical art—to transform the world. Jerry White argues that Berger and Tanner's work is preoccupied with ideas that were at the same time central to the Enlightenment and characteristically Swiss. Translations of previously unpublished essays by both Berger and Tanner are included as appendices.