Living Dangerously: A Biography of Joris IvensAmsterdam University Press, 2000 - 443 Seiten The Dutch film maker Joris Ivens (1898-1989) was one of the founding fathers of documentary film. The career of this eternal traveller spanned over sixty years, from his first film in the twenties to his last, finished at the age of ninety. Among Ivens's friends and collaborators were leading filmmakers and actors like Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Dovzhenko, Chaplin, Milestone, Capra, Losey, Flaherty, Grierson, De Santis, the Taviani brothers, Signoret, Montand and Marker. In his early years Joris Ivens was a prominent figure in the international film avant-garde. From the thirties onwards he became, according to American film historian Robert Sklar, 'the most important political filmmaker of the decade, probably of the century'. His films on Soviet socialism, the Spanish Civil War, the Indonesian struggle for independence, the Vietnam-war and the Cuban and Chinese revolutions, make him a subject of controversy in any debate on the relationship between art and propaganda. Hans Schoots has based his biography on new research of Ivenss complete filmwork and of unknown production-documents, personal letters and diaries, found in many archives, such as Ivens's FBI-dossier and State Archives in Moscow and former Eastern-Berlin. Artistic and political milieus in Amsterdam, Berlin, Moscow, New York, Hollywood, Paris, Havana, Hanoi and Beijing provide the background of this fascinating life-story. This is the volume 11 in the Amsterdam University Press series Film Culture in Transition, edited by Thomas Elsaesser. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 7 |
The Bosss Son 1898 1921 | 13 |
Ragmop 19211927 | 21 |
A Time of Daily Discoveries 1927 1929 | 34 |
Exactly How We See It Too Sir 1929 | 49 |
You hear me Father Mother World Charnel House 19301931 | 59 |
The Magnetic Mountain 1932 | 74 |
Socialist Realism 1933 | 84 |
Indonesia Merdeka 1945 1946 | 194 |
The Uncle Behind the Iron Curtain 1947 1950 | 211 |
The Blue Book 1950 1956 | 228 |
Breathing Space 19571960 | 250 |
Cowboy Boots and Guerrilla Cap 1960 1964 | 265 |
A Socialist Scoop 1964 1968 | 285 |
SixtyNine in SixtyEight 1968 1971 | 302 |
The Old Steed Gallops a Thousand Li 1971 1978 | 316 |
Sidetracked 1934 1936 | 97 |
Land of Opportunity 1936 | 110 |
The Spanish Labyrinth 1937 | 118 |
Chinese Poker 1938 | 135 |
Ivenss Interbellum 1939 1941 | 151 |
Glamour Boy of the Revolution 1941 1944 | 163 |
War Under the Palm Trees 1944 1945 | 179 |
An Arduous DeStalinization 1978 1985 | 338 |
Unfavorable Winds 1985 1989 | 351 |
Acknowledgements | 363 |
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