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Free admission
Monday, February 28, 2005
7 pm
Auditorium de l’Alliance
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SFSU- Coppola Theater 10 am |
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Le cinéma vecteur de l'exception culturelle:
Aventure politique et rêve
artistique
The notion of "cultural exception", which has its roots in a political vision and a history of aesthetics, holds a place in the French tradition much the same as cinema does in the imagination of the country's citizens.
It is, in fact, in response to the experience of the film industry that several policies (immune to the traditional partisan debate) have been put forth by the artistic community and civil society.
This has not only renewed and further developed a strong defense of French cinema, but it has also done the same for global cinema in the name of a "French idea" of cinema.
The result is an alternative model for international relations, which, in terms of culture, had been dominated by Hollywood.
Director of the publication Cahiers du Cinéma, Frodon began his career as an educator and a photographer before becoming a film critic and journalist for the weekly magazine Le Point.
Frodon then took on the same responsibilities for Le Monde's arts section, and eventually, in 1994, the film section.
He has delivered numerous seminars at the École Normale Supérieure and has taught at the Institut National de Sciences Politiques.
With the support of Le Monde and Sciences-Po, he founded the organization L'Exception in 2001. This organization unites intellectuals and professionals, creating a forum to reflect on cinema. |
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