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In UtopianTelevision, Michael Cramer examines works of the great filmmakers RobertoRossellini, Peter Watkins, and Jean-Luc Godard, all of whom looked totelevision as a promising new medium even while remaining critical of itsexisting practices. Cramer reveals the extent to which television inspired andshaped hopes of a better future as well as of better moving image. 

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Both theoretical treatise and intellectual history, Michael Cramer's intervention matches the utopian vision of its subject as he efficiently and astutely navigates us through the thorny politics of art cinema. --Karl Schoonover, University of Warwick</p> Michael Cramer's fine book explores those paths not taken that define a genre, that interplay between film and TV pioneered by Rossellini in service of a now utopian social pedagogy. Peter Watkins' understudied work, along with Rossellini's experiments--unfamiliar to those who only know him through the early masterpieces--throw a wholly new light on Godard himself, and Cramer's luminous readings of the works are as stimulating as his overall theorization of this new, or perhaps missed, form. --Fredric Jameson, Duke University</p>

Both theoretical treatise and intellectual history, Michael Cramer's intervention matches the utopian vision of its subject as he efficiently and astutely navigates us through the thorny politics of art cinema. --Karl Schoonover, University of Warwick Michael Cramer's fine book explores those paths not taken that define a genre, that interplay between film and TV pioneered by Rossellini in service of a now utopian social pedagogy. Peter Watkins' understudied work, along with Rossellini's experiments--unfamiliar to those who only know him through the early masterpieces--throw a wholly new light on Godard himself, and Cramer's luminous readings of the works are as stimulating as his overall theorization of this new, or perhaps missed, form. --Fredric Jameson, Duke University

Both theoretical treatise and intellectual history, Michael Cramer s intervention matches the utopian vision of its subject as he efficiently and astutely navigates us through the thorny politics of art cinema. Karl Schoonover, University of Warwick</p> Michael Cramer's fine book explores those paths not taken that define a genre, that interplay between film and TV pioneered by Rossellini in service of a now utopian social pedagogy. Peter Watkins' understudied work, along with Rossellini's experiments unfamiliar to those who only know him through the early masterpieces throw a wholly new light on Godard himself, and Cramer's luminous readings of the works are as stimulating as his overall theorization of this new, or perhaps missed, form. Fredric Jameson, Duke University</p>

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Michael Cramer is assistant professor of film history at Sarah Lawrence College.

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