Sociologie filmique et travail

• Main Author: Joyce Sebag
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: La Nouvelle Revue du Travail 2012-12-01
• Series: La Nouvelle Revue du Travail
• Subjects: filmic sociology; cinematographic writing; Nummi; blue-collar work; Nissan; managerial work
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/nrt/383

This article defines the main contours of the filmic sociology by applying them to the world of work. As tools of investigation and expression, cameras (and cinema as a whole) require a mastery of cinematographic writing in order that sociological documentaries might exist. Based on two of these productions – one involving blue collar work and the other managerial work – the author demonstrates the difference between what cinematographic expression and the printed word communicate. The co-production of knowledge between the director of a film and the characters therein is depicted as one of the main challenges facing the filmic sociology, particularly where this entails interviews with new uses that sociologists have yet to invent. Otherwise, the article deals with the « distanciation » and point of view issues that preoccupy sociology in general but are particularly acute here. Cameras offer an indirect way of showing the perspective with which a filmmaker views society, with the editing process fine-tuning whatever choices have been made. The fourteen proposals featured in the appendix indicate what directions the filmic sociology might take.