The Left Bank of the New Wave or the Left Bank Group?
Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of the Left Bank Group, a contingent of French filmmakers of the 1950s and 1960s, whose work is usually considered in the wider context of the New Wave. Film historians from the 1960s to the present date are in dispute as to the status and character of this phenomenon, and the justifiability of granting it an identity of its own. The author refers to the most important stances of film historians and critics dealing with the Left Bank Group and identifies two broad strategies of practising film history: an inclusive one (aiming to include the analysed phenomenon into the New Wave) and the exclusive one (which argues for a completely separate identity of the Left Bank Group both in the aesthetic and problem areas). In film studies practice these two strategies rarely appear in pure form, rather they determine a certain direction for film history research – therefore it is worth considering whether other strategies are possible that would help to critically redefine the canon of cinema.
Keywords:
New Wave, Left Bank Group, French cinemaReferences
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Paulina Kwiatkowskakwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
University of Warsaw Poland
Wykłada w Instytucie Kultury Polskiej Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego oraz w Warszawskiej Szkole Filmowej. Zajmuje się teorią i historią filmu, historią kultury polskiej i francuskiej, antropologią kultury wizualnej. Publikuje m.in. w „Kwartalniku Filmowym” i „Kontekstach”. Współredagowała antologię Antropologia kultury wizualnej (2012) oraz tom Nie chcę spać sam. Kino Tsai Ming-lianga (2009); wydała książkę Somatografia. Ciało w obrazie filmowym (2011, wyd. rosyjskie 2014).
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