ISBN:
9789048519453
,
9048519454
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (345 pages)
Series Statement:
Open Access e-Books
Series Statement:
Knowledge Unlatched
Series Statement:
Film theory in media history
Uniform Title:
Cinéma contre spectacle
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Comolli, Jean-Louis Cinema against spectacle : technique and ideology revisited / by Jean-Louis Comolli ; translated and edited by Daniel Fairfax
Keywords:
Motion pictures Philosophy
;
Motion pictures - Philosophy
;
PERFORMING ARTS / General
Abstract:
Jean-Louis Comolli's six-part essay Technique and Ideology had a revolutionary effect on film theory and history when it first appeared in Cahiers du Cinéma in 1971. In 2009, Comolli revisited his earlier text, arguing that the present age, marked by the total dominance of media-filtered spectacle over image production, makes the need for an 'emancipated, critical spectator' more pressing than ever. In this volume, Daniel Fairfax presents annotated translations of these two texts to provide an overview of Comolli's activity as both a theorist and a filmmaker
Description / Table of Contents:
Cinema against Spectacle -- Introduction -- Cinema against Spectacle -- I. Opening the Window? -- II. Inventing the Cinema? -- III. Filming the Disaster? -- IV. Cutting the Figure? -- V. Changing the Spectator? -- Technique and Ideology: Camera, Perspective, Depth of Field -- Introduction -- I. On a Dual Origin -- The ideological place of the "base apparatus" -- Birth = deferral: The invention of the cinema -- II. Depth of Field: The Double Scene -- Bazin's "surplus realism" -- The work of "transparency" -- For a materialist history of the cinema -- "For the first time ..." -- III."Primitive" Depth of Field -- IV. Effacement of Depth/Advent of Speech -- V. Which Speech?
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Translation from the French of Cinéma, contre spectacle
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