This Monday, May 18 at 3 p.m., at the arthouse cinema Les Montreurs d’Images, the University of Agen Free Time (UTLA 47) is organizing a conference on the theme of political cinema and propaganda.
This Monday, May 18 at 3 p.m., the arthouse cinema Les Montreurs d’Images in Agen will host a conference devoted to political and propaganda cinema, organized by the University of Free Time of Agen (UTLA 47).
This conference will be moderated by Gérard Dastugue, teacher-researcher of cinema and music at the Catholic Institute of Toulouse. It offers a journey through cinema as a tool of influence, protest and power.
Cinema, between propaganda and resistance
It aims to explore the way in which the 7th art has served both political ideologies and democratic struggles by analyzing notable works (*Z*, *The Triumph of the Will*, *The President’s Men*, *The Marble Man*…) but also other emblematic extracts from the committed cinema.
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Between manipulation of images, fabrication of narrative, denunciation of regimes and societies, this conference will highlight the mechanisms by which cinema shapes or deconstructs the collective imaginations around certain directors: Costa-Gavras, Ken Loach, Oliver Stone, Leni Riefenstahl, Spike Lee, etc. A time for discussion and debate will close the meeting.
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