Revelationist Aesthetics in Contemporary Cinema

On the cusp of the twenty-first century, the notion of art as revelation of reality held sway in film aesthetics and criticism. Where did this seemingly naive belief in the vocation of art originate, what sustained it, and how did it shape the work of filmmakers, as diverse as Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet, and Abbas Kiarostami? These questions launch this book's explorati...