first edition Softcover
1927 · Conflans-Honorine
by Lorulot, André
Conflans-Honorine: Edition de la Revue "L'Idée Libre", 1927. First edition. Softcover. g to g+. Quarto (9 x 7"). 8pp (Text), [4]pp (Plates). Original printed wrappers in modern glassine.
In this scarce essay, André Lorulot promotes the idea of a "democratic and popular" cinema underlying anti-clerical and anti-militarist values in opposition to the "capitalist" production of the films of the time. This essay of the free-thinker underlines the fear, in the cinema of the time, of seeing a re-emergence of religious and nationalist topics in a France still freshly secular (1905) and recently pacifist (1918).
The four photographic plates feature five b/w photographic reproductions depicting movie scenes of Boris Mikhin's "Abrek Zaur" (1926); Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin" (1926); Ivan Moskvin as Postmaster in his movie "The Stationmaster" (1925); and a scene from a French anti-alcohol film.
Glassine age-toned. Wrappers age-toned along edges. Upper corner of pages slightly creased. Text in French. Glassine in overall good, wrappers and interior in good to good+ condition. (Inventory #: 42050)
In this scarce essay, André Lorulot promotes the idea of a "democratic and popular" cinema underlying anti-clerical and anti-militarist values in opposition to the "capitalist" production of the films of the time. This essay of the free-thinker underlines the fear, in the cinema of the time, of seeing a re-emergence of religious and nationalist topics in a France still freshly secular (1905) and recently pacifist (1918).
The four photographic plates feature five b/w photographic reproductions depicting movie scenes of Boris Mikhin's "Abrek Zaur" (1926); Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin" (1926); Ivan Moskvin as Postmaster in his movie "The Stationmaster" (1925); and a scene from a French anti-alcohol film.
Glassine age-toned. Wrappers age-toned along edges. Upper corner of pages slightly creased. Text in French. Glassine in overall good, wrappers and interior in good to good+ condition. (Inventory #: 42050)