UniPopCiné Season 15: Lesson 5: History (Popular University of Cinema)
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Lesson 5: History.
For a wandering history of cinema: the motif as a guiding thread
By Vincent Amiel, Emeritus Professor in Cinema Aesthetics (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne).
Cinema-conference interspersed with film excerpts | In French | 60’.
"Can a history of cinema be crafted based on motifs glimpsed across films? Are these motifs too anecdotal to support the logic of historicity, too incidental to structure the idea of an evolution, both in forms and in themes? These questions can only be answered through examples, the targeted analysis of some of these motifs. We will choose a few that engage the cinematic principle: the camera as a dramatic object, the face-to-face as a setup, the sensation of flying… We'll see that they transcend epochs and genres and can compose a dynamic, relatively continuous, relatively directed: not only can they have a history, but they can also reflect the history of cinema." (Vincent Amiel)
Interlude "snack & drink" followed by the film screening: Peeping Tom, UK 1960, Michael Powell, vostFR, 101’. Cast: Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey.
Where does it take place?
Cinémathèque Luxembourg
17 Place du Théâtre
2613 Luxembourg
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