Steven Ungar

Biographic Data

ID3681872
NAMESteven Ungar
GIVEN NAMESSteven
FAMILY NAMEUngar
SIGNATUREUNGAR S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Iowa
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1971
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX1

  • Quality Wars

    Open AccessSteven UngarARTICLESouth Central Review2016

    The Groupe des Trente (Group of Thirty, hereafter G30) was a collective of French film directors, producers, critics, and technicians. It formed in 1953 with a mission to protest proposed changes in state funding policies that the group described as a threat to the unique form of the short subject (le court métrage). The origins of the policies in question draw on reforms instituted some 20 years earlier and revised during the 1940-44 German occu…

  • Walking with Hegel in Marseilles

    Open AccessSteven UngarARTICLEFrench Cultural Studies2014

    Robert Guédiguian’s Les Neiges de Kilimandjaro (2011) draws on Marius et Jeannette (1997) and La Ville est tranquille (2000), features he likewise filmed on location in his native Marseilles. As a series or set, the three films constitute a loose version of the Hegelian dialectic of thesis, antithesis and synthesis that is evident in Guédiguian’s cinematic treatment of Marseilles’ evolving topography and demographics. The conclusion of Les Neiges…

  • Scenes in a Library

    Steven UngarARTICLESubStance2012

    Scenes in a Library:Alain Resnais and Toute la mémoire du monde Steven Ungar (bio) You never know what you are filming. — Chris Marker, Le Fond de l'air est rouge (1977) One Film in Another What interest might a 1956 documentary short about a library hold today for the historically-minded spectator? The pages that follow explore the place of Alain Resnais's 1956 documentary, Toute la mémoire du monde (All the World's Memory) among the eight short…

  • Introduction

    Steven UngarARTICLESubStance2012

    Introduction:Between The Essay Film and Social Cinema Steven Ungar (bio) Call it meaningful coincidence. The dossier in this issue of SubStance was well along in production when I realized that its appearance would mark the fiftieth anniversary of the article in which Richard Roud first referred to Chris Marker, Agnès Varda and Alain Resnais as Left Bank filmmakers.1 As Roud noted in the first line of his 1962 article, classification is a kind of…

  • Making Waves

    Steven UngarARTICLEL' esprit créateur/ L' Esprit…2011References: 7

    Making Waves: René Vautier's Afrique 50 and the Emergence of Anti-Colonial Cinema Steven Ungar My preferred of the French filmmakers in their eighties is René Vautier. Now there's someone whose work I'd like to get to know better. —John Gianvito A measure of evolving approaches to French colonial cinema over the past quarter-century came to me recently in the form of Pierre Boulanger's 1975 monograph, Le Cinéma colonial, which was one of the firs…

  • Surrealism and the Art of Crime

    Steven UngarARTICLEComparative Literature Studies2010

    Book Review| January 01 2010 Surrealism and the Art of Crime Surrealism and the Art of CrimeEburne, Jonathan P. Steven Ungar Steven Ungar University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2010) 47 (1): 107–110. https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.47.1.0107 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Steven Ungar; Surrealism and the…

  • Jean Vigo, L'Atalante, and the Promise of Social Cinema

    Steven UngarARTICLEHistorical Reflections/Réflexions…2009

    The four films Jean Vigo made between 1930 and 1934 bridged transitions from silent to sound formats and from avant-garde experiments to what he called a social cinema grounded in a documented point of view. This article studies traces of this social cinema in Vigo's 1930 documentary A propos de Nice (Regarding Nice) and his 1934 feature L'Atalante (1934). Links to Parisian surrealism and to leftwing anarchism marked these films as inspiration fo…

  • Cléo de 5 à 7

    Steven UngarBOOKCléo de 5 à 72008

  • In the Thick of Things

    Open AccessSteven UngarARTICLEFrench Cultural Studies2003Cited by: 5References: 3

  • Driven to Write

    Steven UngarARTICLESubStance2003

    The questions concerning fascination and knowledge proposed by the gracious invitation to contribute to the hundredth issue of SubStance call for a profession of faith that, via Georges Bataille, I want to redirect from fascination toward something more intense

  • Vichy

    Steven UngarARTICLEFrench Politics Culture & Society2001

    Henry Rousso’s The Vichy Syndrome (1987) has changed the way many people think and write about France since 1940. Yet it is likely that the term “syndrome” (from the Greek sundromos or “running together”) in his title remains a provocation because it invokes a pattern of behavior linked to disease and abnormality By extension, it conveyed an implied accusation—perhaps even an indictment—concerning an inability on the part of France as nation and …

  • Reflections on David Carrroll's "French Literary Fascism"

    Open AccessSteven UngarARTICLESouth Central Review1997

  • Scandal and Aftereffect

    Open AccessMichele Richman, Steven UngarARTICLESouth Central Review1997

  • The Hollow Years

    Open AccessSteven Ungar, Eugen WeberARTICLESouth Central Review1996

  • Against Forgetting

    Steven UngarARTICLEdiacritics1992

    or theoretical terms. Nor should it be equated with commitment in the Sartrean sense, since it emphasizes the primacy of affect within what might otherwise be taken for action undertaken in the name of disinterested or morally principled inquiry. Involvement here is also, so to speak, the flipside of concer for objectivity. I do not mean to suggest that emotion and objectivity are incompatible when it comes to historical understanding. To the con…

  • Signs in Culture

    Elizabeth J Macarthur, Steven Ungar et al.ARTICLESubStance1991

  • Phantom Lascaux

    Steven UngarARTICLEYale French Studies1990

  • Signs in Culture

    Steven Ungar, Betty R McgrawARTICLEPoetics Today1990

  • Aftereffect and Scandal

    Open AccessSteven UngarARTICLESouth Central Review1989

    Jean-Paul Sartre wrote in 1960 that case of Martin Heidegger was too complex for him to explain at time. Sartre did not--could not? would not?-address some thirty years ago returns today as aftereffect and scandal. Until recently, reception of Heidegger's writings in France bordered on reverential. As a cultural figure, he came to personify philosopher-poet whose conception of language and practice of writing inspired a generation of artists and …

  • The Barthes Effect

    Steven Ungar, Réda BensmaïaARTICLEModern Language Notes1988

  • Les Modernes

    Steven Ungar, Jean-Paul AronARTICLEModern Language Notes1987

  • Semiotics and Interpretation

    Steven Ungar, Robert Scholes et al.ARTICLESubStance1983

  • Forwarding Addresses

    Steven UngarARTICLEThe Bulletin of the Midwest…1982

  • The Professor of Desire

    Steven UngarARTICLEYale French Studies1982

  • Endurance and the Profession

    Jean-François Lyotard, Christophe Gallier et al.ARTICLEYale French Studies1982Cited by: 1