Contribution of written publications to the dissemination and development of cinema: The Cahiers du Cinéma (1951-1959)

Sebastian Chisaba Rojas

doi:10.37390/avancacinema.2021.a324

Abstract

Cinema has been built around the work of great directors. It was also built because of the writings that have been generated by studying the material produced since the invention of the cinematograph. This has allowed the advancement of theoretical and academic studies where cinema has been conceived as an art that transcends the audiovisual. In 1951 the Cahiers du Cinéma were created, a series of periodical publications, with great importance for French cinematography and the world in general, given the influence of their written articles.Through a bibliographic review and a case study of the impact of the Cahiers du Cinéma, it is intended to determine not only the features central to these publications, but also their value in French cinematography in the 1950s, emphasizing in their theoretical essays. This article aims to show the importance of written publications for the development and dissemination of cinema as an art that goes beyond the screens. Seeking to show the impact that the theory of La Mise en scène “Staging” and La politique des auteurs “The politics of authors” had in the exercise of written and audiovisual production in other countries of the world.

Highlights

Cinema has been built around the work of great directors
Cabe resaltar que hay algo en común entre algunos de los directores anteriormente nombrados, aparte de pertenecer a La Nouvelle vague, la gran mayoría de ellos fueron escritores en la revista Cahiers du Cinéma
Es muy importante para el ejercicio de la crítica enfocado a películas puntuales, esta sección se podrá analizar con el fin de determinar algunos datos y estadísticas sobre la filmografía que trataba la revista, y la tipología de películas que eran de consideración para la editorial, definiendo qué cinematografía tanto en género, como de qué países y de qué autores eran las predilectas de la revista en su etapa inicial, adicional a esto se podría ampliar el estudio a cómo la crítica expuesta en estos artículos pudo llegar a impactar a los realizadores de las películas, estudiando la posible influencia de las publicaciones escritas sobre crítica cinematográfica en los realizadores de cine, por medio de entrevistas o textos publicados por los mismos realizadores de manera posterior

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Cinema has been built around the work of great directors. It was built because of the writings that have been generated by studying the material produced since the invention of the cinematograph.

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