The Utopia of Film: Cinema and Its Futures in Godard, Kluge, and Tahimik

The Utopia of Film is an impressive book, drawing together an intriguing set of materials to construct a sustained argument about both the "failures" of cinema and its Utopian afterlives. It is a book that people will read for all kinds of reasons, academic and otherwise, not least of which is its bold proposal that the future is unthinkable without cinema. -- Richard Dienst, author of The Bonds of Debt and Still Life in Real Time