{"product_id":"the-ethnographic-optic-jean-rouch-chris-marker-alain-resnais-and-the-turn-inward-in-1960s-french-cinema-9780253069597","title":"The Ethnographic Optic: Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ethnographic Optic\u003c\/i\u003e traces the surprising role of ethnography in French cinema in the 1960s and examines its place in several New Wave fictions and \u003ci\u003ecinéma vérité \u003c\/i\u003edocumentaries during the final years of the French colonial empire. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocusing on prominent French filmmakers Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, and Alain Resnais, author Laure Astourian elucidates their striking pivot from centering their work on distant lands to scrutinizing their own French urban culture. As awareness of the ramifications of the shrinking empire grew within metropolitan France, these filmmakers turned inward what their similarly white, urban, bourgeois predecessors had long turned outward toward the colonies: the ethnographic gaze.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing some of the most canonical and best-loved films of the French tradition, such as\u003ci\u003e Moi, un Noir\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLa jetée\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMuriel\u003c\/i\u003e, this is an essential book for readers interested in national identity and cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaure Astourian is Associate Professor of French at Bentley University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50499434479890,"sku":"9780253069597","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a0619ffd-4f24-4427-bb2f-64781390fb00.jpg?v=1730744497","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-ethnographic-optic-jean-rouch-chris-marker-alain-resnais-and-the-turn-inward-in-1960s-french-cinema-9780253069597","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}