Check out (though not really on Vigo):
Dudley Andrew - Sound in France (The Origins of a Native School) in
Rediscovering French Film (ed. Mary Lea Bandy), Museum of Modern Art:
New York, pp57-65.
Michel Marie touches on the matter in his article on Sous les toits de
Paris in Hayward/Vincendeau's French Film: Texts and Contexts.
My poor-ish memory of all this is that sound is the stranglehold of
Tobis and Paramount in France until Pierre Braunberger gets back from
the USA and tries to get new sound systems introduced at Billancourt.
He makes On purge bebe with the Western Electric equipment (favoured
by Paramount) with Renoir, the latter subsequently making Boudu with
the Tobis equipment.
Don't know about L'Atalante - Marina Warner's book on the film might
be a place to start (as I'm sure you know)?
w
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> From: indra karan <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Praxis - Fascism.
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> Hi all,
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> Given the standard definition and understanding of PRAXIS
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_ (process), can one
> possibly say or assume a political ideology like FASCISM
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism) is a product of
> Praxis.
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> Can Fascism under the guise of Praxis address the core
> issues that are central to Humanity or an individual
> correspondingly in the spiritual, ideological or
> pedagogical processes that are part of critical or
> evolutionary consciousness?
>
> Does Fascism effectively camouflage the =93Truth=94 or the
> Facts in a manner that is distortion of "reality" or of
> "self identities" and a sham scientific process in the
> evolution historical processes, where in humanity, given
> its imperfect nature of self is led in to self deception or
> false beliefs based on identities of gender, class, race,
> culture, religion and national Identity?=20
>
> Former Columbia University Professor Robert O. Paxton has
> written that:
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> Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior
> marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline,
> humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of
> unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of
> committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but
> effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons
> democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence
> and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal
> cleansing and external expansion."[11]
>
> Paxton further defines fascism's essence as:
>
> 1.A sense of overwhelming crisis beyond reach of
> traditional solutions.
> 2. Belief one=92s group is the victim, justifying any action
> without legal or moral limits.
> 3. Need for authority by a natural leader above the law,
> relying on the superiority of his instincts.
> 4. Right of the chosen people to dominate others without
> legal or moral restraint.
> 5. Fear of foreign `contamination."[12]
>
> Semiotician Umberto Eco attempts to identify the
> characteristics of proto-fascism as the cult of tradition,
> rejection of modernism, cult of action for action's sake,
> life is lived for struggle, fear of difference, rejection
> of disagreement, contempt for the weak, cult of masculinity
> and machismo, qualitative populism, appeal to a frustrated
> majority, obsession with a plot, illicitly wealthy enemies,
> education to become a hero, and speaking Newspeak, in his
> popular essay Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at
> a Blackshirt.[15] More recently, an emphasis has been
> placed upon the aspect of populist fascist rhetoric that
> argues for a "re-birth" of a conflated nation and ethnic
> people.[16]
>
> I welcome your views and thoughts,
> Regards,
> Indrakaran.
> Boston.
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