Complete cinematic works : scripts, stills, documents / Guy Debord ; translated and edited by Ken Knabb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Debord, Guy, 1931-1994.

Contributor:

Knabb, Ken.

Standardized Title:

Oeuvres cinématographiques complètes. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture plays--History and criticism.

Motion picture plays.

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, CA : AK Press, 2003.

Summary:

Guy Debord (1931???1994) was the most influential member of the Situationist International, the avant-garde group that triggered the May 1968 revolt in France.

While Debord's written work (including "The Society of the Spectacle") is some of the most notorious in the world of political and cultural radicality, deemed "the cornerstone cliche of postmodernism," his films have until now remained tantalizingly inaccessible.

Ken Knabb's translation of Debord's "Complete Cinematic Works" accompanies the long-awaited English versions of these films, which will be coming soon to the United States. The scripts are illustrated with 62 stills, and Debord's own annotations help elucidate the subtleties of these astonishing works, unparalleled in cinematic history.

Contents:

Howls for Sade (1952)

On the passage of a few persons through a rather brief unity of time (1959)

Critique of separation (1961)

The society of the spectacle (1973)

Refutation of all the judgments, pro or con, thus far rendered on the film "The Society of the Spectacle" (1975)

In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (1978)

A user's guide to Détournement

Technical notes on the first three films

Letter about "On the Passage"

For a revolutionary judgment of art

On The Society of the Spectacle (reply to a critic)

Cinema and revolution

On The Society of the Spectacle (announcement of the film)

The use of stolen films

The themes of "In girum"

Instructions to the "In girum" sound engineer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1902593731

1902593839

OCLC:

52396255