Utopian Television: Rossellini, Watkins, and Godard beyond Cinema

In Utopian Television, Michael Cramer examines works of the great filmmakers Roberto Rossellini, Peter Watkins, and Jean-Luc Godard, all of whom looked to television as a promising new medium even while remaining critical of its existing practices. Cramer reveals the extent to which television inspired and shaped hopes of a better future as well as of better moving image.