The ethnographic optic : Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the turn inward in 1960s French cinema


Laure Astourian Laure Astourian.
Bok Engelsk 2024 · Film criticism.
Utgitt
Indiana University Press-2024
Omfang
xiii, 243 sider
Opplysninger
"The Ethnographic Optic in 1960s French Cinema traces the surprising role of ethnography in French cinema and studies its place in New Wave fictions and cinéma vérité documentaries while the French colonial empire fell apart. Author Laure Astourian argues that amid a shrinking empire, the enthusiasm of prominent French filmmakers Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, and Alain Resnais to produce ethnographic analysis of their own society reflects their growing awareness that France's identity was unraveling. In response, they internalized what their similarly white, urban, bourgeois predecessors had long turned outwards against the colonies. Including some of the most canonical and best-loved films of the French tradition, like Breathless and La Jetée, this is an essential book for readers interested in national identity and cinema"--
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ISBN
978-0253069597

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