Critical mass : social documentary in France from the silent era to the new wave / Steven Ungar.
| Author/creator | Ungar, Steven, 1945- author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018] |
| Description | 1 online resource (xxii, 300 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Series | Book collections on Project MUSE. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: Primal Scenes and Establishing Shots; 1 A First Wave: Documentary Paris in the Shadow of the Talkies; Somewhere Else: Georges Lacombe and La Zone (1928); The Ambiguities of Pure Cinema; Paris by Night: Les Halles centrales (Boris Kaufman, 1928); 2 Visualizing Paris Anew; Moving In, Moving Out: André Sauvage and Études sur Paris (1928); In Thrall to the Silent Image; Sunday in the Country: Marcel Carné and Nogent, Eldorado du dimanche (1929); Through the Window; Transition I: Networking, 1929-1930; 3 "All the World's Misery." |
| Contents | The End of the World; A Kick in the Pants to Open Our Eyes: À propos de Nice (Jean Vigo, 1930); Sweet Children of Misery: Aubervilliers (Eli Lotar, 1946); The Slaughterhouse Photos; Transition II: Popular Front-Vichy-Postwar; 4 Colonial Cinema and Its Discontents; Making Waves: Afrique 50 (René Vautier, 1950); "We Martians of Africa": Les Statues meurent aussi (Alain Resnais and Chris Marker, 1953); Whose Voice? Whose Film? Moi, un Noir (Jean Rouch, 1958); Transition III: The Group of Thirty; 5 Two Takes on Postwar Paris; Scenes in a Library: Toute la mémoire du monde (Alain Resnais, 1956). |
| Contents | Other Scenes in a Library; Paris Springtime Zero: Le Joli Mai (Chris Marker, 1963); A Hard Left; Afterthoughts: A Radical Lyricism; Acknowledgments; Appendix A. Declaration of the Group of Thirty; Appendix B. Quality Subsidy Study: Short-Subject Advantages; Notes; Filmography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 23, 2018). |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Ungar, Steven, 1945- Critical mass. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018] 9781452956923 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2018001921 |
| ISBN | 9781452956916 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 145295691X (electronic bk.) |
| Stock number | 22573/ctv4ckpc3 JSTOR |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |