[en] In the 1960s, the French changed direction – but neither did they adopt the more educative, journalistic Anglophone documentary tradition nor the Direct Cinema revision of it, although the turn also made much of synchronous sound. Instead, French documentary, against a background of considerable theoretical debate on the cinema in general, turned back to Vertov and Kino-Pravda.
Disciplines :
Performing arts
Author, co-author :
Van Cauwenberge, Geneviève ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des Arts et Sciences de la communication > Cinéma et vidéo documentaires
Language :
English
Title :
Cinéma Vérité: Vertov Revisited
Publication date :
2013
Main work title :
BFI Companion to Documentary
Editor :
Winston, Brian
Publisher :
Palgrave Macmillan, Londres, United Kingdom BFI, Londres, United Kingdom
