La rampe is the first book that Daney published as a film critic. It's a selection of articles he wrote for Cahiers du cinéma between 1970 and 1982, surveying the landscape of cinema and film criticism over the '70s. It was published in 1983. Daney would have been 38 or 39 years old ("an already old cinephile" as he describes himself). He had already left the Cahiers, where he started as a film critic at the age of 20, for the daily newspaper Libération.
Below is the table of contents with links to translations that appeared online over the years. La rampe was finally fully translated by Nicholas Elliott in 2023 and published by Semiotexte as Footlights.
Taking a view (1970-1972) – Violence and representation (saving the screen)
- On Salador (cinema and advertising)
- The one grows old (Howard Hawks and Rio Lobo)
- The screen of fantasy (Bazin and the beasts)
- The political space (Histoires d’A)
- On paper (nationality: immigrant)
- Re-mise en scène (Ivens, Antiononi, China)
- A tomb for the eye (Straubian pedagogy)
- The therrorised (Godardian pedagogy)
- The aquarium (Robert Kramer and Milestones)
- One more bear (Kurosawa and Dersu Uzala)
- The “off” discourse (Illumination by Krzyztoff Zanussi)
- Notes on Salo
- Grey matter (Jaws by S. Spielberg) (extract)
- The Syberberg-state (Hitler, a film from Germany)
- Praising Tati
- What did they say? (Ceddo by Ousmane Sembene)
- A morals of perception (From the clouds to the resistance by Straub-Huillet)
- The fury of story-telling (The big red one by S. Fuller)
- The organ and the vacuum cleaner (Bresson, the Devil, the voice-over and other things)
- In praise of Emma Thiers (Jean-Claude Biette’s realism)
- The raw and the cooked (the state of French cinema, 1980)
- Wim’s movie (Wim Wenders and Nicholas Ray)
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