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Screening Reality: French Documentary Film During the German Occupation
Contributor(s): Wharton, Steve (Author), Collier, Peter (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0820468827     ISBN-13: 9780820468822
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
OUR PRICE: $51.25  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2006
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film - General
- Literary Criticism | European - French
- History | Europe - France
Dewey: 791.436
LCCN: 2007416153
Series: Modern French Identities
Physical Information: 252 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - French
Features: Index
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2008 pg. 244
 
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Publisher Description:
Between 1940 and 1944 in German-occupied France, the previously disregarded documentary or film de complement took on a new and more prominent role for cinema audiences. Film programmes were obliged for the first time to show documentaries as well as the main feature. Vichy Government support and encouragement made documentary a vehicle for the palatable promotion of policy whilst ostensibly appearing neutral and didactic. Key to this task was the fostering of a climate in which documentary film could be appreciated in its own right, and so it was that special series of high quality documentaries were screened first in Paris and then across France. In 1943 a Government-sponsored Documentary Film Congress acknowledged that these screenings were - au service de la France et du Marechal. This book relates the films to their historical context with reference to other propaganda materials of the period, to indicate how this might have been achieved."
 
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