Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Summary
This book provides a vital new reading of documentary and realist fiction film of the French 1930s that focuses on how these genres interlock their representations of urban spaces and places.
Contents
Introduction: An architecture of social being -- The spatial constitution of 1930s documentary -- René Clair's city views: realism and Studio Paris -- Intertext and political margins in Jean Renoir's Boudu Sauvé des Eaux -- Traversing built history in architectural documentaries -- Flâneuses and the unmaking of place -- The crowd as new monumentality during the popular front -- Epilogue: Poetic realism as spatial fable.
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