Révélations et apprentissages : mise en scène des corps en classe dans des « films d’initiation pédagogique » de la Cinémathèque centrale de l’enseignement public (dans les années 50)

Abstract

This article is based on the collection of the Cinémathèque centrale de l'enseignement public (CCEP) and focuses on four films produced by Intermondia Films, an educational film production company in the 1950s. The corpus will be approached inductively, in the sense that it is through viewing these films and audiovisual analysis of their content that recurrences, redundancies and a kind of structuring "narrative schema" can be noticed, making it possible to problematize their existence and their stakes in the educational sphere. Analysis of these classroom films involves studying the audiovisual devices they employ: camera placement, choice of shots, staging of the protagonists, verbal exchanges. It also draws on sociological references to better interpret the staging of bodies in the classroom, normalized by a pedagogical relationship that the film both reflects and is symptomatic of.

Keywords

• reception
• film analysis
• pedagogy
• narrative scheme
• school context