ON THE EVE OF THE FUTURE

Gathered here for the first time, these texts demonstrate Michelson's pervasive influence as a writer and thinker and her role in th e establishment of cinema studies as an academic field. The postwar generation of Independents worked to develop radically new terms , techniques, and strategies of production and distribution. Michelson shows that the fresh new forms they created from the legacy o f Modernism became the basis of new forms of spectatorship and cinematic pleasure.