We are pleased to announce the publication of Assembly Lines: Montage in Postwar French Film, written by one of our ASFS members, Ivan Cerecina (The University of Sydney / https://ivancerecina.com/ ).
The book is published by University of Minnesota Press.
The book examines the re-emergence of montage as an aesthetic figure and historiographical principle post-1945, via a study of the early films by three important filmmakers of that postwar generation: Nicole Vedrès, Alain Resnais, and Chris Marker. It is both a study of film editing and a look at how filmmakers were drawing together and thinking about images of the atomic bomb, the concentration camps, and the country’s crumbling colonial empire.
Assembly Lines is available for pre-order in Australia and NZ until the end of February for the reduced price of $40 AUD, via The Nile bookstore: https://www.thenile.com.au/books/ivan-cerecina/assembly-lines/9781517919443