La vérité? Quelle vérité? Experimenting with reality in non-fiction film of the 60.

Abstract

The author attempts to reconstruct some of the major voices in the critical discourse surrounding cinéma vérité in the 1960s and in contemporary film studies. He follows it with a textual analysis of two major documentaries of this nonfiction genre (Chronique d’un été and Le Joli mai). This textual analysis is extended by some historical context in order to define anew the borders of genre taxonomy. Eventually it allows the author to inscribe in the history of this genre numerous documentaries which previously were not associated with cinéma vérité.