Cinema of Change

Welcome to the Cinema of Change podcast with Tobias Deml and Robert Rippberger. Cinema of Change is a magazine and community that challenges the conventions of film and its ability to effect change in the world. Professor Paige teaches at the UC Berkeley French Department and has published a number of papers and books focusing mostly on seventeenth and eighteenth-century French literature and culture. What makes him so unique to us is that he is on of the foremost experts on the French New Wave - and the magazine that came with it, the “Cahiers du Cinema.” This period in 1960s French Cinema sparked a revolution in filmmaking worldwide. How could a few french intellectuals change the face of cinema? We’re about to find out. 00:25 - Intro: The French New Wave (FNW) 01:23 - How does a film movement form and become successful? 05:50 - Did the "Cahier du Cinema" magazine dictate the course of the French New Wave? 10:12 - How did the FNW filmmakers transition from critic to creator? 13:45 - How does a journalist