Critical Mass

Author : Steven Ungar

Paperback

Published : Tuesday 21 August 2018

ISBN : 9780816689217

Price : €28.07

Description

Thirty-five years of nonfiction films offer a unique lens on twentieth-century French social issuesCritical 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 Vigoâ?Ts manifesto, his 1930 short A? propos de Nice, and late silent-era films by Georges Lacombe, Boris Kaufman, AndrAc Sauvage, and Marcel CarnAc as antecedents of postwar documentaries by Eli Lotar, RenAc Vautier, Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, and Jean Rouch, associated with critiques of colonialism and modernization in Fourth and early Fifth Republic France.A 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 Lacombeâ?Ts La Zone (1928) to Chris Markerâ?Ts Le Joli Mai (1963).A 

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