Ciné-Mondial

Ciné-Mondial
Editor-in-chiefPierre Heuzé
CategoriesFilm magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Founded1941
First issue8 August 1941
Final issue11 August 1944
CompanyÉditions Le Pont
CountryFrance
Based inParis
LanguageFrench

Ciné-Mondial was a weekly film magazine which was published in France in the period between 1941 and 1944 when Nazi Germany occupied the country. It is known for being the sole publication on movies in France during that period.[1]

History and profile

Ciné-Mondial was started in 1941 shortly after the occupation of France by the Nazi forces.[2][3] Its first issue appeared on 8 August that year.[2] The magazine was founded by the German authorities who banned all French film magazines, including Cinémonde, Ciné-Miroir and Pour Vous.[1] Its financier was the German embassy in Paris.[2] It was part of Éditions Le Pont and came out weekly.[2] Robert Muzard was the director of the magazine,[2] and Pierre Heuzé served as its editor-in-chief.[4]

Nazi occupiers established two cinema clubs in Paris, and the magazine was affiliated with one of them.[5] It frequently published news about this club which had been founded in September 1943.[5] It also attempted to improve the credibility of Nazi films among French people.[6] However, it never featured the photographs of Nazi leaders.[4] Because it avoided negative reactions of its readers[4] who were mostly young adults and women.[2] The magazine folded on 11 August 1944.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Geneviève Sellier (2019). "Movie Magazines, Popular Films, and Popular Spectatorship in Postwar France". In Tamar Jeffers McDonald; Lies Lanckman (eds.). Star Attractions: Twentieth-Century Movie Magazines and Global Fandom. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press. p. 83. ISBN 9781609386740.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Sophie Hebert; Laurence Lécuyer (9 April 2020). "La presse cinématographique sous l'Occupation". Cinematheque (in French). Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  3. ^ Delphine Chedaleux (2010). "Un jeune premier sous l'Occupation: Jean Marais ou l'éloge d'une masculinityé passive". Studies in French Cinema. 10 (3): 215. doi:10.1386/sfc.10.3.205_1. S2CID 194058264.
  4. ^ a b c Christine Leteux (Summer 2019). "A Notorious Trip to Berlin". Cineaste. 44 (3): 30–35. JSTOR 26664305.
  5. ^ a b Eric Smoodin (Spring–Fall 2017). ""The Last Amateurs of Pure Cinema": Ciné-Clubs and French Film Culture, 1930–1945". Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media. 58 (1–2): 97. doi:10.13110/FRAMEWORK.58.1-2.0090. S2CID 194864450.
  6. ^ Brett Bowles (2009). "Book review". Modern and Contemporary France. 17 (2): 216. doi:10.1080/09639480902854383. S2CID 147273670.