1. Jean-Luc Comolli and Jean Narboni, ‘Cinema/ideology/criticism’, Screen, 12: 1 (1971), p. 30.
2. The Langlois affair and its consequences are discussed in Sylvia Harvey, May ’68 and Film Culture (London: British Film Institute, 1978).
3. Sam Rohdie, ‘The Estates General of the French cinema, May 1968’, Screen, 13: 4 (1972/73), pp. 79–85.
4. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, ‘On the writing of the history of the cinema: Some problems’, in Edinburgh’77 Magazine: History/Production/Memory (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Film Festival, 1977), p. 10.
5. Dwight Macdonald, ‘A theory of mass culture’ in Bernard Rosenberg and David Manning White (eds), Mass Culture: The Popular Arts in America (New York: Macmillan, 1957), p. 60.