Assembly lines : montage in postwar French film /
Assembly Lines challenges a dominant story of postwar French film, championed by critics at important film journals like Cahiers du cinéma, that has generally centered realist film aesthetics. Working against this tendency, Cerecina shows how Védrès, Resnais, and Marker revitalized montage as a tech...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis, MN :
University of Minnesota Press,
2026.
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| Summary: | Assembly Lines challenges a dominant story of postwar French film, championed by critics at important film journals like Cahiers du cinéma, that has generally centered realist film aesthetics. Working against this tendency, Cerecina shows how Védrès, Resnais, and Marker revitalized montage as a technique in response to the crises of the times, using it to process the ravages of the recent past, expose hidden connections, and uncover signs of coming catastrophe. Wedding insightful analyses of films and French cultural history with writings from lesser-heard voices like André Malraux, Jacques Brunius, and Henri Langlois, Assembly Lines illuminates obscured networks of critics, filmmakers, and historians to reshape our conception of French film and documentary. |
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| Physical Description: | 229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781517919436 1517919444 9781517919443 1517919436 |