Framing the Nation - Documentary Film in Interwar France

Zusatztext "...A sound and carefully-crafted addition to French and film history of the entre-deux-guerres, and one that will certainly be of use to scholars and students in these fields."--H-France Informationen zum Autor Alison J. Murray Levine is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Virginia. Klappentext Argues that interwar documentary film made a substantial contribution to the rewriting of the French national narrative Vorwort Argues that interwar documentary film made a substantial contribution to the rewriting of the French national narrative Zusammenfassung Scholars of French film state that the French made no significant contribution to documentary film prior to the Vichy period. This title refutes this misconception and shows that the French were early and active believers in the uses of documentary film for social change. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. An Introduction 2. Truth Peddling: Documentary Film in Interwar France 3. "The Revolt of the Beets": Educational Film in Rural France 4. "Model Native Villages:" Educational Film in the French Colonies 5. "Mysterious and Subtle Cheesemaking": Filming Rural France 6. "Carcasses of Manioc-Eaters": Filming Colonial France 7. Conclusion: Recycling Rural Images - The Vichy Propaganda Machine

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• Authors: Alison J.Murray Levine, Alison J Murray Levine, Alison J. Murray Levine
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.04.2010
• EAN: 9780826431875
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-3187-5
• No. of pages: 238
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; France, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Documentary, Documentary films, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism