Cinema against spectacle : technique and ideology revisited / by Jean-Louis Comolli ; translated and edited by Daniel Fairfax.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Comolli, Jean-Louis, author.

Contributor:

Fairfax, Daniel, translator, editor.

Series:

Film theory in media history.

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Film theory in media history

Standardized Title:

Cinéma, contre spectacle. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)..

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

Translation from the French of Cinéma, contre spectacle.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

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

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?.

Notes:

"Originally published as : Cinema, contre spectacle, Jean-Louis Comolli ;©Editions VERDIER, 2009".

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

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ISBN:

1-003-69251-6

1-04-079727-X

90-485-1945-4

9781003692515

OCLC:

1350571726