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By Joseph Mai

ISBN-10: 0719096472

ISBN-13: 9780719096471

Intervening on the crossroads of philosophy, politics, and cinema, this booklet argues that the occupation of Robert Guédiguian is the results of probably the most unique and coherent initiatives in modern French cinema: to make a dedicated, historically-conscious cinema, in an area house, over an extended time period, yet such a lot specifically with friends.

The account starts off with in-depth attention of friendship and its relation to philosophy, politics, time, and area. The e-book chronologically lines this undertaking because it starts off in Guédiguian's place of origin, the Communist-leaning Marseille. It additional unfolds throughout the political ameliorations of the Nineteen Eighties Left and the neighborhood activism and utopias of the Nineties, and spreads into Guédiguian's various explorations of style and check in. shut research is followed with ancient and social contextualization, but additionally with a constant go back to the underlying, radical and philosophically wealthy project.

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