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| | Film Comment: Why Cahiers still matters - Cahiers du Cinema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | While the influence of Cahiers has grown in France, to the extent that one might say it has become semi-institutionalized (e.g., one of its mainstay critics in the Eighties and Nineties, Alain Bergala, was recently charged by the Ministry of Culture to oversee a program of film education), its influence abroad has waned. |
 | | Founded on Cahiers' groundbreaking work in the Fifties and Sixties, Film Studies has since become a satellite of Cultural Studies, an academic discipline that doesn't exist in France, where film criticism remains informed by the understanding that a film's form is indissoluble from its content. |
 | | Those Cahiers alumni who turned to filmmaking since the Seventies -- Andre Techine, Olivier Assayas, and Pascal Bonitzer, to name only a few -- inevitably find that, abroad, their alma mater is still seen in terms set by the debates of the Sixties. |
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