[The impact of socially involved films].

L'impact des films d'intervention sociale.

Publisher: Presses universitaires de France Country of Publication: France NLM ID: 100928866 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 1293-8882 (Print) Linking ISSN: 12938882 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Tiers Monde

Original Publication: [Paris] Presses universitaires de France.

Mass Media* ; Social Change*; Africa ; Africa, Northern ; Algeria ; Communication ; Developing Countries ; Economics ; Middle East

Indexing Agency: PIP Local ID #: 792444. Indexing Agency: POP Local ID #: 00070415.
Keywords: Africa; Algeria; Arab Countries; Communication; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; French Speaking Africa; Mass Media*; Mediterranean Countries; Northern Africa; Social Development*
Note: TJ: Revue Tiers Monde
Local Abstract: [PIP] During the past few years studies on linguistics and particularly on semiology have considerably renewed the approach and investigation methods in artistic expression. Ideology has several languages and expression systems (photography, painting, music, speech, architecture and so on). The film does not only carry an ideological content: besides the signification systems and the signs taken from other means of films. To consider only films which have the ostensible objective to urge the public to a political action as socially involved is wrong: any movie is socially involved. One must appreciate correctly and politically the place, role and level at which it intervenes in the framework of the ideological fight. Audiovisual alphabetization is essential for the progress of new ideas in the field of picture and sound. In the Third World, when they do exist, cinematographies rarely have the political power to consider such an action. Ideological impact depends mostly on the social, political and cultural environment. A movie is 1st questioned from the standpoint of the historical place and of the problems of the public. The example of Algerian cinematography as a socially involved one is given. At its origin, film-making in this country was working at informing the outside world of the meaning of the people's fight. Its goal was to capture the political and social reality in order to change it. Therefore the social involvement role of Algerian film-producing is tightly connected to the revolutionary process in which the whole country is engaged. Algerian film-producing is often understood as a propaganda cinematography. The stagnation or progress of a cinematography cannot be measured in relation to the universal mythical culture, but in relation to the social and cultural reality of the country where it originates. The present deepening of the reflection on film and ideology is a result of a recent accentuation of the ideologic fight.

Date Created: 19790701 Date Completed: 19800610 Latest Revision: 20140519

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