Critical Mass : Social Documentary In France From The Silentera To New Wave
UNGAR Steven
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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 A propos de Nice, and late silent-era films by Georges Lacombe, Boris Kaufman, Andre Sauvage, and Marcel Carne as antecedents of postwar documentaries by Eli Lotar, Rene Vautier, Alain Resna ...
Publication date: 2018-12-01
Number of pages: 328
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Status: NOT YET PUBLISHED
Subjects:
Non-fiction, Art/design/film, Art & Artists, History Of Art / Art & Design Styles, Film, TV & Radio, Documentary Films, Films, Cinema, Music, Social Sciences, Sociology, Published in the USA