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The Ethnographic Optic
2024
Overview
The Ethnographic Optic traces the surprising role of
ethnography in French cinema in the 1960s and examines its place in
several New Wave fictions and cinéma vérité documentaries
during the final years of the French colonial empire.
Focusing on prominent French filmmakers Jean Rouch, Chris
Marker, and Alain Resnais, author Laure Astourian elucidates their
striking pivot from centering their work on distant lands to
scrutinizing their own French urban culture. As awareness of the
ramifications of the shrinking empire grew within metropolitan
France, these filmmakers turned inward what their similarly white,
urban, bourgeois predecessors had long turned outward toward the
colonies: the ethnographic gaze.
Featuring some of the most canonical and best-loved films of the
French tradition, such as Moi, un Noir , La jetée ,
and Muriel , this is an essential book for readers
interested in national identity and cinema.
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Subject
/ Cinéma vérité-History and criticism
/ Entertainment & Performing Arts
/ Ethnology in motion pictures
/ Europe
/ France
/ HISTORY
/ Individual Director (see also BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
/ Marker, Chris,-1921-2012-Criticism and interpretation
/ Motion pictures-France-History
/ National characteristics, French, in motion pictures
ISBN
0253069599, 9780253069597, 9780253069610, 0253069610, 0253069580, 9780253069603, 9780253069580, 0253069602
