Noel Burch's new book is a critique of the assumptions underlying 'classical' approaches to film history: the assumption that what we call the language of film was a natural, organic development, that it lay latent from the outset in the basic technology of the camera, waiting f…
Life to those shadows
by American Council of Learned Societies, Burch, Noel, Brewster, Ben
"Noel Burch's new book is a critique of the assumptions underlying 'classical' approaches to film history: the assumption that what we call the language of film was a natural, organic development, that it lay latent from the outset in the basic technology of the camera, waiting …
In this publication the authors adopt a sociocultural approach to films made in France before, during, and after World War II, paying particular attention to the occupation years (1940-1944). Citing more than 300 films, they argue that films made in France between 1930 and 1956 …
