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The Social Architecture of French Cinema: 1929-1939

The Social Architecture of French Cinema: 1929-1939

Flinn, Margaret C.

Paperback

Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, Book 34

Film StudiesFrench HistoryGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1800348894
ISBN13: 9781800348899
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Jan 5 2021
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
From the fleetingly captured street scenes of the city symphony, to the meticulously reconstructed studio city of musical comedies; from the propagandistic Popular Front documentaries about construction workers, to poetic realism's bittersweet portraits of populist neighborhoods: Social Architecture explores the construction, representation and experience of spaces and places in documentary and realist films of the French 1930s. In this book, Margaret C. Flinn tracks the relation between the emergent techniques of French sound cinema and its thematic, social and political preoccupations through analysis of discourse in contemporary press, theoretical texts and through readings of films themselves. New light is shed on works of canonical directors such as Renoir, Clair, Vigo and Duvivier by their consideration in relationship to little known documentary films of the era. Flinn argues that film has a readable architecture--a configuration of narrative and representations that informs, explains, and creates social identities, while reflecting upon the position of individuals within their societies.

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