The Ethnographic Optic
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The Ethnographic Optic

Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Ethnographic Optic

Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Note on Translations
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. The Ethnographer’s Alibi: The Limits of Shared Narration in Jean Rouch’s Moi, un Noir
  10. 2. “Moi, un Blanc”: Jean Rouch’s “Parisian Period,” from La pyramide humaine to Petit à Petit
  11. 3. Missed Connection: Paris in Chris Marker’s Le joli mai and La jetée
  12. 4. Seeing Double: Algeria and France in Alain Resnais’s Muriel
  13. Conclusion
  14. Glossary
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. About the Author