ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Bernard Eisenschitz’s activities as a film critic and historian after he was expelled from Cahiers du Cinéma in 1972. A member of the Parti communiste français throughout the 1970s, he initially wrote for the party’s cultural journal La Nouvelle Critique as well as communist publications such as Révolution and L’Humanité, and he exposed the readership of these organs to a wide array of films influenced by Cahiers’ own cinematic canon. Later, his lifelong passion for film history manifested itself in a prolific series of books, written with a meticulous care for detail, which included historical surveys of German and Soviet cinema and studies of the filmmakers Nicholas Ray, Fritz Lang and Chris Marker.
