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OverviewFrom 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Margaret C. Flinn (Ohio State University (United States))Publisher: Liverpool University Press Imprint: Liverpool University Press Volume: 34 ISBN: 9781800348899ISBN 10: 1800348894 Pages: 254 Publication Date: 05 January 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: An Architecture of Social Being 1. The Spatial Constitution of 1930s Documentary 3. René Clair’s City Views: Realism and Studio Paris 3. Intertext and Political Margins in Jean Renoir’s Boudu sauvé des eaux 4. Traversing Built History in Architectural Documentaries 5. Flâneuses and the Unmaking of Place 6. The Crowd as New Monumentality during the Popular Front Epilogue: Poetic Realism as Spatial Fable Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsFirst-rate... Flinn adopts a well-argued and innovative interdisciplinary approach and selects an intriguing corpus of films - some, notably Boudu, well-known and widely accessible, others much harder to view, but well described and contextualized. --Professor Keith Reader, University of Glasgow An intellectually ambitious project that brings together film history and architecture ... and a valuable contribution to scholarship on French cinema of the 1930s. --Professor Ginette Vincendeau, King's College London With a comprehensive bibliography, readable style, and pertinent screengrabs, this book opens up new pathways for understanding and appreciating the complex terrain of 1930s French cinema. --Ben McCann, French Studies Vol. 69 Issue No. 3 Flinn's book is a valuable and original contribution to research on one of the most important periods of French film history. --Edward Ousselin, French Review Author InformationMargaret C. Flinn is Assistant Professor of French at Ohio State University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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