Cinema against spectacle technique and ideology revisited

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 o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Comolli, Jean-Louis, author (author), Fairfax, Daniel, translator, editor (translator)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press 2015
[2015]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Film theory in media history.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009439556906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?.