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Cinema Against Spectacle

Technique and Ideology Revisited
  • Jean-Louis Comolli
  • Edited by: Daniel Fairfax
  • In collaboration with: Éditions Verdier
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2015
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Film Theory in Media History
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About this book

Jean-Louis Comolli’s six-part essay Technique and Ideologyhad 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.

Author / Editor information

Comolli Jean-Louis :

Jean-Louis Comolli is a French writer, editor, and film director. He was editor of Cahiers du cinéma in 1965-73.Fairfax Daniel :

Daniel Fairfax is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and an editor of the online film journal Senses of Cinema.

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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
January 12, 2015
eBook ISBN:
9789048519453
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
348
Illustrations:
35
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