وجدان سینما: آثار یوریس ایونس، ۱۹۲۶-۱۹۸۹

This is the first book to survey the entire career of Joris Ivens, a prolific documentary filmmaker who worked on every continent over the course of seven decades. More than a biography of a leftist committed to changing the world through film, The Conscience of Cinema is also a microcosmic history of the documentary and its form, culture, and place within twentieth-century world cinema. Ivens worked in almost every genre, including the essay, compilation, hybrid dramatization, socialist realism, and more. Whether in his native Netherlands, the Soviet Union, the United States, Vietnam, or beyond, he left an indelible artistic and political mark that continues to resonate in the twenty-first century. The Conscience of Cinema is not only a history of a rich and varied personal oeuvre by a prolific documentary maker who worked on every continent and through seven decades, from the 1920s to the 1980s. It is also the history of the aspiration to use documentary film to change the world by a committed leftist, as well as a microcosmic history of documentary form, technology and culture, and its place within world cinema as a whole throughout the twentieth century. Ivens worked in almost every genre of documentary, including the essay, compilation, hybrid dramatization, direct cinema, social observation, the solidarity film, socialist realism, agitprop activism. In this book, detailed filmic analysis is enriched by a profound historical understanding of the contexts in which Ivens carried out his vision, from his native Netherlands to the Soviet bloc, USA, France, Latin America, Vietnam and finally China. Everywhere, Joris Ivens left an indelible artistic and political mark, critically relevant to a twenty-first century where documentary has reclaimed its cultural and political centrality Table of Contents Notes to the Reader Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Foreword By André Stufkens Foreword By Bill Nichols Introduction Part I 1. Ivens and the Silent Film Avant-Garde 1926-1929 2. The Radicalisation of the Poet 1929-1936 3. Anti-Fascist Solidarity Documentary 4. Projects of the Forties Part II 5. Torn Curtain: lvens the Cold Warrior 1946-1956 6. The 'Poet' Reborn? 1956-1965 7. Southeast Asia 1966-1970 Reinventing the Solidarity Film 8. China 1971-1989 Conclusion: Qui s'arrête se trompe Notes Appendix: Films on Ivens Filmography Reference List Index