1968 and global cinema

Although scholarship exists on the late 1950s and 1960s New Wave films, research that puts cinemas on 1968 into dialogue with one another across national boundaries is surprisingly lacking.

Only in recent years have histories of 1968 begun to consider the interplay among social movements globally.

The essays in this volume cover a breadth of cinematic movements that were part of the era's radical politics and independence movements.

Focusing on history, aesthetics, and politics, each contribution illuminates conventional understandings of the relationship of cinema to the events of 1968, or 'the long Sixties'.