| FT-61757-14 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Tim Palmer | A Liberated Cinema: Reconstituting the Postwar French Film State, 1946-1958 | 7/1/2014 - 8/31/2014 | $6,000.00 | Tim | | Palmer | | | | University of North Carolina, Wilmington | Wilmington | NC | 28403-3201 | USA | 2014 | Cultural History | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 6000 | 0 | 6000 | 0 |
This book-length project uses unpublished archival materials to explore the rise of a postwar French film state, a period during which France systematically developed a preeminent moving image culture, suitable for global export. A LIBERATED CINEMA: RECONSTITUTING THE POSTWAR FRENCH FILM STATE, 1946-1958, a revisionist history, primarily investigates a quartet of generative sources: the implementation of top-down governmental initiatives to build a so-called 'quality' (and popular) French cinema; the creation of the Cannes Film Festival as a site to validate these French ideals of progressive film art; the rise of advanced critical-practical training within the Parisian film school circuit; and the concomitant appearance of counter-cultural media discourses in France, such as lesbian cinema, dissident documentaries, and satirical animations. From these contexts grew a fascinating yet until now neglected film ecosystem, whose legacy is still felt today. |