{"product_id":"critical-mass-9780816689217","title":"Critical Mass","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThirty-five years of nonfiction films offer a unique lens on twentieth-century French social issues.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Brimming with as many fruitful insights as remarkable discoveries, \u003ci\u003eCritical Mass\u003c\/i\u003e amounts to a Declaration of Social Purpose for early French documentary film. Steven Ungar yokes the daring-do of the avant-garde to the political goals of the left over the course of some forty years of filmmaking. It is a triumph of critical analysis.\"—Bill Nichols, author of \u003ci\u003eIntroduction to Documentary, Third Edition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A powerhouse crowning the career of a distinguished scholar of twentieth-century studies, \u003ci\u003eCritical Mass\u003c\/i\u003e will be an enduring point of reference for the history of both documentary cinema in France and of the genre \u003ci\u003etout court\u003c\/i\u003e. Wide-ranging, meticulously researched, and incisive, Steven Ungar’s readings recover the contexts that shape documentary style, form, and process. Had André Breton read \u003ci\u003eCritical Mass\u003c\/i\u003e, he would have concluded, rightly, that cinema will be documentary or it will not be.\"—Tom Conley, Harvard University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Establishing Shots\u003cbr\u003e1. A First Wave: Documentary Paris in the Shadow of the Talkies\u003cbr\u003e2. Moving In, Moving Out\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eÉtudes sur Paris \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eTransition I: 1929–1930\u003cbr\u003e3. “All the World’s Misery”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Propos de Nice\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eAubervilliers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTransition II: Popular Front—Vichy—Postwar\u003cbr\u003e4. Colonial Cinema and Its Discontents\u003cbr\u003eRené Vautier, \u003ci\u003eAfrique 50\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eAlain Resnais\/Chris Marker, \u003ci\u003eLes Statues meurent aussi\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eJean Rouch, \u003ci\u003eMoi, un Noir\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eTransition III: The Group of Thirty\u003cbr\u003e5. Two Takes on Postwar Paris: Scenes in a Library and Paris Springtime Zero\u003cbr\u003eAlain Resnais, \u003ci\u003eToute la mémoire du monde\u003cbr\u003eChris Marker, Le Joli Mai\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eAfterthoughts: A Radical Lyricism\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eAppendix A. Declaration of the Group of Thirty\u003cbr\u003eAppendix B. Quality Subsidy Study: Short-Subject Advantages\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eFilmography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405972545879,"sku":"9780816689217","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816689217.jpg?v=1730494099","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/critical-mass-9780816689217","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}