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“Cinéma: Social Means of Expression”

Introduction and translation by Richard Abel Uploaded 15 September We could begin by studying the laws by which cinema is able to express itself; we could attempt to discern cinema’s connections with the aesthetics of the past, present, and future. Whether or not it is a seventh art, a synthetic art, or even an art, the cinema exists. And its …

Introduction to Moussinac’s “Cinema: Social means of Expression”

Uploaded 15 September Léon Moussinac (1890-1964) was one of the most prolific and influential French critics/theorists of cinema during the 1920s. A boyhood friend of Louis Delluc in Bordeaux, Moussinac did three years of military service beginning in 1910 and then was recalled into the French army during World War I. He aspired to be writer and tried his hand …

Geography, photography, the cinema

Les Archives de la Planète [1] I want to thank you for inviting me here. I am very pleased to be able to speak at the Royal Geographical Society so crucial for the development of geography at the beginning of the nineteenth century and one of the institutions which encouraged the development of geography as a science, promoted exploration and colonisation …