Camera Historica: The Century in Cinema (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

Antoine de Baecque proposes a new historiography of cinema, exploring film as a visual archive of the twentieth century, as well as history's imprint on the cinematic image. Whether portraying events that occurred in the past or stories unfolding before their eyes, certain twentieth-century filmmakers used a particular mise-en-scène to give form to history, becoming in the process historians themselves. Historical events, in turn, irrupted into cinema. This double movement, which de Baecque terms the "cinematographic form of history," disrupts the very material of film, much like historical events disturb the narrative of human progress. De Baecque defines, locates, and interprets cinematographic forms in seven distinct bodies of cinema: 1950s modern cinema and its conjuring of the morbid trauma of war; French New Wave and its style, which became the negative imprint of the malaise felt by young contemporaries of the Algerian War; post-Communist Russian films, or the "de-modern" works of catastroika; contemporary Hollywood films that attach themselves to the master fiction of 9/11; the characteristic mise en forme of filmmaker Sacha Guitry, who, in Si Versailles m'était conté (1954), filmed French history from inside its chateau; the work of Jean-Luc Godard, who evoked history through his own museum memory of the twentieth century; and the achievements of Peter Watkins, the British filmmaker who reported on history like a war correspondent. De Baecque's introduction clearly lays out his theoretical framework, a profoundly brilliant conceptualization of the many ways cinema and history relate.

Humor & Entertainment

Baecque, Antoine de

Movies

Columbia University Press

The director of twenty-five films, including My Night at Maud's (1969), which was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, and the editor in chief of Cahiers du cinéma from 1957 to 1963, Éric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched, made, and thought about cinema for decades. Such brilliance does not develop in a vacuum, and Rohmer cultivated a fascinating network of friends, colleagues, and industry contacts that kept his outlook sharp and propelled his work forward. Despite his privacy, he cared deeply about politics, religion, culture, and fostering a public appreciation of the medium he loved. This exhaustive biography uses personal archives and interviews to enrich our knowledge of Rohmer's public achievements and lesser known interests and relations. The filmmaker kept in close communication with his contemporaries and competitors: François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, and Jacques Rivette. He held a paradoxical fascination with royalist politics, the fate of the environment, Catholicism, classical music, and the French nightclub scene, and his films were regularly featured at New York and Los Angeles film festivals. Despite an austere approach to life, Rohmer had a voracious appetite for art, culture, and intellectual debate captured vividly in this definitive volume.

Éric Rohmer: A Biography

Arts & Photography

Herpe, Noël

History & Criticism

Ma transhumance: Carnet de routo

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

ARTHAUD

La Nouvelle Vague: Portrait d'une jeunesse

Flammarion

Ma transhumance: Carnets de routo

Photography & Video

En partenariat avec France Culture, la première histoire de la marche, par un auteur – historien et journaliste – dont la surface médiatique n'est plus à prouver. Des pèlerinages aux randonnées, des drailles transhumantes aux manifestations politiques, il n'y aura guère eu d'interruption dans la pratique de la marche. La circulation pédestre fait l'homme. Elle est une activité constitutive de l'être humain. Pour en faire l'histoire, Antoine de Baecque part à la rencontre de toutes les formes de marches, et des hommes qui les pratiquent : les peuples et les métiers dont l'identité même semble nomade et pédestre, des Lapons aux Sioux, des colporteurs aux bergers ; les pèlerins, selon toutes les traditions, ceux qui remontent aux sources du Gange ou empruntent le Tôkaidô, comme les marcheurs de Compostelle et de La Mecque. Et si la marche a quasiment perdu ses professionnels, elle a inventé ses praticiens du week-end, ses usagers du temps libre, les randonneurs. Mais l'on chemine aussi en ville, depuis l'apparition des promenades urbaines du XVIIe jusqu'aux " manifs " les plus récentes. Qu'elle permette de mieux vivre, de survivre ou qu'elle soit le support incarné de revendications, la marche a une histoire. Antoine de Baecque, nourri aux sources les plus diverses, déploie ses talents d'historien et de conteur pour offrir un livre profondément original et vivant.

Une histoire de la marche

Science & Math

PERRIN

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Pocket

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