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Audiovisual news archives Identifying sources and production conditions. J. GUYOT - UFR Culture & communication Université Paris 8 – IP Camaret August 2012. Audiovisual Archives. Historical documents. Official documents but also productions of cultural industries.
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Audiovisual news archivesIdentifying sources and production conditions J. GUYOT - UFR Culture & communication Université Paris 8 – IP Camaret August 2012
Audiovisual Archives • Historical documents. • Official documents but also productions of cultural industries. • Many historical events that were never recorded. • A puzzle that must be reconstructed : sourcing rushes, different edited versions, description files, … • Re-enactment of historical events. • How to deal with AV Archives : • Careful viewing. • Reporting tecnhiques and fiction techniques are often very close. • Identify production conditions. • Beware of perfect images.
Propagandas • Propagandas : differents forms of tecnhiques: monuments, myths, interior enemy [Ellul] and now mass media. • Propaganda associated with lies. • Silent propagandas [Ramonet] • “You can fool some of the people all the time, and all the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time“, Abraham Lincoln. • PR = public relations or Planning reactions according to Tony Schwarz. • Manufacturing consent [Chomsky • Manipulating public opinion in democracy. [Bernays]
Movieand TV extracts • The arrival of German troops in Paris : June 1940. • Ge Gaulle Call to French people : 18th of June 1940. • “Cinq colonnes à la Une“, Le soldat Robert, French TV, 1959. • The Battle of Dien Bien Phu (November 1953 –May 1954), Roman Karmen pictures.
Bibliographical clues • BERNAYS Edward, Propaganda. Comment manipuler l’opinion publique en démocratie, Zones, 2007. • CHOMSKY Noam, Propagande, médias et démocratie, Écosociété, 2005. • ELLUL Jacques, Propagandes, Economica, 1990. • MATTELART Armand, La globalisation de la surveillance. Aux origines de l’ordre sécuritaire, La Découverte, 2008. • RAMONET Ignacio, Propagandes silencieuses. Masses, télévision, cinéma, Gallimard, 2002.