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- Book Title
- Critical Mass
- Title
- Critical Mass
- Subtitle
- Social Documentary in France from the Silent Era to the New Wave
- ISBN-10
- 0816689210
- EAN
- 9780816689217
- ISBN
- 9780816689217
- Release Date
- 08/21/2018
- Release Year
- 2018
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Genre
- Films & TV
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Critical Mass : Social Documentary in France from the Silent Era to the New Wave
- Item Height
- 1.5in
- Item Length
- 10in
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Item Width
- 7in
- Item Weight
- 25 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 344 Pages
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Thirty-five years of nonfiction films offer a unique lens on twentieth-century French social issues Critical Mass is the first sustained study to trace the origins of social documentary filmmaking in France back to the late 1920s. Steven Ungar argues that socially engaged nonfiction cinema produced in France between 1945 and 1963 can be seen as a delayed response to what filmmaker Jean Vigo referred to in 1930 as a social cinema whose documented point of view would open the eyes of spectators to provocative subjects of the moment. Ungar identifies Vigo's manifesto, his 1930 short propos de Nice , and late silent-era films by Georges Lacombe, Boris Kaufman, Andr Sauvage, and Marcel Carn as antecedents of postwar documentaries by Eli Lotar, Ren Vautier, Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, and Jean Rouch, associated with critiques of colonialism and modernization in Fourth and early Fifth Republic France. Close readings of individual films alternate with transitions to address transnational practices as well as state- and industry-wide reforms between 1935 and 1960. Critical Mass is an indispensable complement to studies of nonfiction film in France, from Georges Lacombe's La Zone (1928) to Chris Marker's Le Joli Mai (1963).
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Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10
0816689210
ISBN-13
9780816689217
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13038784606
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Critical Mass : Social Documentary in France from the Silent Era to the New Wave
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
10in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
7in
Item Weight
25 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn1995.9.D6u395 2018
Reviews
"Brimming with as many fruitful insights as remarkable discoveries, Critical Mass amounts to a Declaration of Social Purpose for early French documentary film. Steven Ungar yokes the daring-do of the avant-garde to the political goals of the left over the course of some forty years of filmmaking. It is a triumph of critical analysis."--Bill Nichols, author of Introduction to Documentary, Third Edition "A powerhouse crowning the career of a distinguished scholar of twentieth-century studies, Critical Mass will be an enduring point of reference for the history of both documentary cinema in France and of the genre tout court . Wide-ranging, meticulously researched, and incisive, Steven Ungar's readings recover the contexts that shape documentary style, form, and process. Had André Breton read Critical Mass , he would have concluded, rightly, that cinema will be documentary or it will not be."--Tom Conley, Harvard University
Table of Content
Introduction: Establishing Shots 1. A First Wave: Documentary Paris in the Shadow of the Talkies 2. Moving In, Moving Out Études sur Paris Transition I: 1929-1930 3. "All the World's Misery" A Propos de Nice to Aubervilliers Transition II: Popular Front--Vichy--Postwar 4. Colonial Cinema and Its Discontents René Vautier, Afrique 50 Alain Resnais/Chris Marker, Les Statues meurent aussi Jean Rouch, Moi, un Noir Transition III: The Group of Thirty 5. Two Takes on Postwar Paris: Scenes in a Library and Paris Springtime Zero Alain Resnais, Toute la mémoire du monde Chris Marker, Le Joli Mai Afterthoughts: A Radical Lyricism Acknowledgments Appendix A. Declaration of the Group of Thirty Appendix B. Quality Subsidy Study: Short-Subject Advantages Notes Filmography Index
Copyright Date
2018
Topic
Film / General, Film / Genres / Documentary, Europe / France, Sociology / General, Film / History & Criticism
Lccn
2018-001921
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
History, Social Science, Performing Arts
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