Positif (magazine)
Positif is one of the leading French film journals. It first appeared in May 1952 and was always in the media competition with the older by a year Cahiers du cinéma. Between the two publications, there were regular outbreaks of strife. Especially since the late 1960s, when the Cahiers saw the task of filmmakers and critics in the subversion and found the language of contemporary cinema is bourgeois and therefore to destroy the Positif editors accused them of, an elitist " aristocracy " of alleged film connoisseur, inaccessible and not to be communicative. Positif was over the decades, a more constant line, left side, but not communist, secular, antigaullistisch and set against the established society.
The monthly Positif not belong to a media conglomerate; In 1991 she was bought by the editors. The editors proclaimed a timeless, fashion free movie review beyond elitism and populism and rejects the distinction between art and entertainment films. The anti fashionable attitude brought a long -lasting rejection of Godard with it. Thematic priorities were next to the French cinema of that of the Latin countries, the U.S. cinema, the British and Polish film.