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The Conscience of Cinema

By Thomas Waugh

Book information

Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9789048525256
DOI
10.1515/9789048525256
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
188 MB (196758662 bytes)
Pages
780\780
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 05:24:26

Description

This is the first book to survey the entire career of Joris Ivens, a prolific documentary filmmaker who worked on every continent over the course of seven decades. More than a biography of a leftist committed to changing the world through film, The Conscience of Cinema is also a microcosmic history of the documentary and its form, culture, and place within twentieth-century world cinema. Ivens worked in almost every genre, including the essay, compilation, hybrid dramatization, socialist realism, and more. Whether in his native Netherlands, the Soviet Union, the United States, Vietnam, or beyond, he left an indelible artistic and political mark that continues to resonate in the twenty-first century.

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