Film called into action : Juan Piqueras, Léon Moussinac, Harry Alan Potamkin and the Internationale of film pedagogy
Fibla Gutiérrez, Enrique (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Comunicació Audiovisual i Publicitat)

Data:	2017
Descripció:	25 pàg.
Resum:	In 1931 New York critic Harry Alan Potamkin published a manifesto titled 'A movie call to action!', in which he encouraged film critics to educate workers and called for the creation of a Film Action Federation. 1 Its ultimate goal was to mobilize the cinematic apparatus beyond its commercial purposes, envisioning a pedagogical role that would educate spectators in social justice and political action. His arguments and concrete proposals are strikingly similar to those of French critic Léon Moussinac, who only a few months earlier had announced his project for a Fédération Ouvrière de Ciné-Photo (Cine-Photo Worker Federation, or FOCP) in Paris. 2 Two years later, Spanish critic Juan Piqueras would publish a very similar manifesto titled 'Hacia una federación de cineclubs proletarios' (Towards a Spanish federation of proletarian film clubs), echoing Potamkin and Moussinac's arguments. 3 All three manifestos, and the corresponding initiatives they spurred, advocate a radical educational imperative. Together these overlooked figures of film culture allow for a triangulation of the spaces where film, education and politics come together in search of an 'improved apparatus' for film. They are a testament to the porous boundaries between film discourse and practice, through which the medium inserted itself into everyday realms of social and political struggle throughout the 1930s.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca
Publicat a:	Screen, Vol. 58 Núm. 4 (2017) , p. 412-436, ISSN 1460-2474

DOI: 10.1093/screen/hjx041

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