Political Cinema :Politics, Ethics and Aesthetics of the ImagePart 1 : Power of the image. Ethics of the filmmaker

14.11.2013

1) IMPLICIT POLITICS

Ed Ruscha, The Back of Hollywwod, 1976-77

Little Caesar – Mervyn LeRoy, 1931

The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 1946)

A tracking shot is a moral issue…(J-L Godard)

2) ETHICS

Nuit et brouillard (Night and Fog) – Alain Resnais, 1956

3) TO MAKE POLITICAL FILMS TO MAKE FILMS POLITICALLY

Qu’ils reposent en révolte (des figures de guerre) – Sylvain George, 2010

4) POLITICAL CINEMA IN AN AGE OF CONSENSUS

Meditations on Revolution, Part II: The Space in Between – Robert Fenz, 1997