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The Ethnographic Optic

The Ethnographic Optic Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960S French Cinema - New Directions in National Cinemas

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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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780253069580
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 791.430944
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 264
Weight: 580g
Height: 157mm
Width: 235mm
Spine width: 23mm