The Brechtian Aspect of Radical Cinema

Martin Walsh, a young critic and film teacher, died in a cycling accident in 1977. He had been a regular contributor to film magazines in Britain, Canada and United States and had established himself as a leading proponent of a radical aesthetics of cinema associated with the work of Bertolt Brecht. Keith M. Griffiths, a film maker and life-long friend of Martin Walsh, has gathered together for this volume, a selection of his published writing, together with some previously unpublished, united around the theme of the Brechtian aspect of radical cinema. Whether discussing Brecht himself, or the Soviet filmmaker Alexander Medvedkin, or the recent work of Daniele Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, these essays are distinguished by their commitment to the clear expression of ideas and problems of great relevance to the cinema today.