The miseries of the needle of the cooperative Cinéma du Peuple
a feminist movie in the early cinema
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-7114.sig.2019.147866Keywords:
early cinema, cinéma du peuple, feminismAbstract
This article aims to analyze the first film produced by Cinéma du Peuple in France, in January 1914, entitled Les Misères de l’Aiguille (Miseries of the Needle). The film was frankly oriented to show the problems of the urban women in French working-class. The film analysis revealed us not only a whole different way of showing women with a feminist motivation, but also a new representation of the female, even by the working-class movement in the early 20th century in France, as we can see by comparing caricatures, draws and pictures produced by militant press and artists.
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ARCHIVES NATIONALES. Pierrefite-sur-Seine. France. Series F/7 Police Générale.
BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE. Sites François Miterrand and Richelieu. Paris, France.
CENTRE D’ÉTUDES, DE DOCUMENTATION, D’INFORMATION ET D’ACTION SOCIALES. CEDIAS Musée Social. Paris, France.
Examined Newspapers
La Bataille Syndicaliste, Paris, 1913-1914.
Le Libertaire, Paris, 1913-1914.
Les Temps Nouveaux, Paris, 1913-1914.
Audiovisual References
L’HIVER! Plaisirs des riches! Souffrances des pauvres! (The winter! Pleasures for the Rich, Suffering of the poor!). Paris: Cinema of the People, 1914.
LA COMMUNE (The Commune). Armand Guerra. Paris: Cinema of the People, 1914.
LA SOURIANTE Madame Beudet (The Smiling Madame Beudet). Germaine Dulac. Paris: Colisée Films, 1922.
LE VIEUX docker (The Old Docker). Armand Guerra. Paris: Cinema of the People, 1914.
LES MISÈRES de l’aiguille (Miseries of the Needle). Raphaël Clamour. Paris: Cinema of the People, 13 minutes, 1914.
LES OBSÈQUES du citoyen Francis de Pressensé (The Funeral of Citizen Francis de Pressensé). Paris: Cinema of the People, 1914.
VICTIME des exploiteurs (Victims of Exploitation). Paris: Cinema of the People, 1914.
Illustrations
ANGRAND, C. Untitled (one mother and two children). Les Temps Nouveaux, Paris, June 27. 1914.
BRADBERRY, G. Dis leur qu’ils ne tuent pas les papas dans les grèves. Les Temps Nouveaux, Paris, May 5, 1906.
DELANNOY. La Dernière Bonne. Les Temps Nouveaux, Paris, May 11, 1907.
NAUDIN, B. “Dessin composé par Bernard NAUDIN, pour le programme de nos représentations des ‘Tisserands’”. Les Temps Nouveaux, Paris, March 14. 1914.
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