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This is be a piece about learning and teaching: about “lessons,” as my title says; that is, a complex exchange from a teacher to a student and the resonances it carries through the years—indeed, sometimes through generations. Annette Michelson has left us a great many texts and this essay thinks through these texts from my position as one of her students. Her mission as a teacher was to make us see, not just a breach between cinema’s promise and its status as an industrial or totalitarian product, but to imagine a continuity to this history by gathering together the elements of its original promise. I will argue that Michelson’s reconstruction of the dream of cinema is less a Hegelian motor for the inevitable modernist appropriation of the new medium, than a concept like the Trotskyite permanent revolution.

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Film’s Radical Aspirations and Primitive Origins: Lessons from Annette Michelson

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    2026年

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  • Tom Gunning

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This is be a piece about learning and teaching: about “lessons,” as my title says; that is, a complex exchange from a teacher to a student and the resonances it carries through the years—indeed, sometimes through generations. Annette Michelson has left us a great many texts and this essay thinks through these texts from my position as one of her students. Her mission as a teacher was to make us see, not just a breach between cinema’s promise and its status as an industrial or totalitarian product, but to imagine a continuity to this history by gathering together the elements of its original promise. I will argue that Michelson’s reconstruction of the dream of cinema is less a Hegelian motor for the inevitable modernist appropriation of the new medium, than a concept like the Trotskyite permanent revolution.