The links are greater between these two case studies than one might think. The second program looks in detail at one particular aspect of the tradition - the treatment of women - and examines the genre of the nude, from the depiction of Adam and Eve in medieval art to the displays of nudity in the girly magazines. The first examines the relations between the traditions of Western oil painting and the modern mass media. from Time/Life in Canada from the BBC in Toronto).Įach program deals with one topic. The four parts each run thirty minutes and rent separately or together (in the U.S. Berger wrote and produced this series of four programs for broadcast on the BBC in 1972. One profitable contact I have had with Berger's work involved a seminar at Northwestern University in which the participants screened and discussed his THE WAYS OF SEEING.
He now lives in Switzerland and has collaborated with Alain Tanner on three film scripts (LA SALAMANDER, MIDDLE OF THE EARTH, and JONAH WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000). Since 1958, he has written four novels and seven other works, dealing with painters, sculptors, an English country doctor, and a group of migrant workers in Geneva. Although I will be concentrating here on the film series THE WAYS OF SEEING, Berger deserves recognition for a number of other projects, indicating a great diversity of interests. So, just as the studios and the agents push and advertise their information, I wish to recommend John Berger to those working toward a radical criticism of capitalist culture. I believe his work deserves a better fate. People here knew little of the Marxist art critic John Berger. The fact that Kenneth Clark is well known in England and North America as author of the BBC series Civilisation makes such a joke possible. "Are you civilised? Have you been civilised lately? If so stick this picture of Kenneth Clark to your living room window." - Monty Python "The Ways of Seeing" by Peter Steven JUMP CUTĬopyright Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 1979, 2005
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