Serge Daney

Serge Daney became the editor of Cahiers du Cinéma in 1974. In 1981, he left Cahiers and wrote about visual culture for Libération, turning his attention to television and coverage of the gulf War. He collaborated with Claire Denis on a documentary film, Jacques Rivette, le veilleur (1990). He died of AIDS-related causes in 1992.

Excerpt

Gray Matter

by Serge Daney

Serge Daney on Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975) and the logic of the disaster movie—an excerpt from Footlights: Critical Notebooks (1970–1982), the new collection of writing by the legendary French critic.