Works out his thinking in front of an audience Jean-Luc Godard: Analysis of class struggle Post-war realism Le Weekend Materialism French "Tradition of Quality" Africans & Algerians Historical Context Renewed access to Hollywood Film As Politics French Revolution: Liberty, Growth of Parisian film clubs & Equality, Fraternity. What if one criticism: Cahiers du cinema dominates the others? Young critics flock to "Primitivism" and political/social Cinemateque Director's cinema evolution. Corinne, Roland, Joseph Balsamo, St. Just, Emile High level film culture Rank directors in terms of Prescription: Revolution? Cahiers du cinema Bronte, Tom Thumb personal expressiveness Politique des auteurs: Critique, deconstruction of Long takes & tableau images Auteur Theory Directorial identity may be in narrative opposition to genre Sound & music Film language Discovery & promotion of "B- film" directors Intertitles, commentary & Issues Truffaut, Godard, Resnais, punning Rohmer, others Political theater & slapstick Godard's "Breathless" & Truffaut's "400 Blows" Distantiation techniques Nouvelle Vague Characterization & historical Camera-stylo: director's cinema personages Fiction >< Documentary "Little Movies" End title: "End of cinema" Breathless, 1960 Pre-War intellectualism, identity Vivre sa vie, 1962 50s consumerism Masculin, féminin, 1966 Godard: Nouvelle Vague Americanization to Dziga Vertov Group Weekend, 1967 Conservative French President Politics & Culture in Charles DeGualle: "Guallism" Radical films and exhibition France Reaction parallels "Hippie" practices, often video, after '68 movement in US, but more political, intellectual, social Model of socialist esthetics Semiotics: seeing culture as a language May, 1968: Students shut down Brecht translated Paris; decade of radicalization into French in 50s Language IS culture; culture IS follows language Art should promote social Ideology embedded in language change, not reinforce Structuralism, bourgeois values Berthold Brecht Deconstruction, etc. Ideology replaces "boss/ Distantiation: Verfremdung worker" model in Marxism Intellection rather than catharsis To change a culture you must change its language Brecht acknowledged in a "Weekend" intertitle Maoism.