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1 online resource (348 pages). |
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Open Access e-Books
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Knowledge Unlatched
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Film theory in media history
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Film theory in media history.
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| 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. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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? |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
English. |
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy.
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy. |
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Film theory and criticism. |
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Film, TV and radio. |
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Films, cinema. |
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The arts. |
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Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism. |
| Indexed Term |
Cahiers du cinéma |
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Film History |
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Film Theory |
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Ideology Cinema and Politics |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Comolli, Jean-Louis. Cinema against Spectacle: Technique and Ideology Revisited. [Place of publication not identified] : Amsterdam University Press, 2015 (DLC) 2015412245 |
| ISBN |
9789089645548 |
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9089645543 |
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9048519454 |
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9789048519453 |
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0899048519453 |
| Standard No. |
10.5117/9789089645548 |
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