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1 online resource (345 pages). |
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text file |
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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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| Bibliography |
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? |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
Translation from the French of Cinéma, contre spectacle. |
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy.
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy. |
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PERFORMING ARTS / General. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Fairfax, Daniel, translator.
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| Added Title |
Cinéma contre spectacle. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2015061624
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Comolli, Jean-Louis. Cinema against spectacle : technique and ideology revisited / by Jean-Louis Comolli ; translated and edited by Daniel Fairfax. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015] 9789089645548 |
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9789048519453 (ebook) |
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9048519454 |
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9789089645548 (paperback) |
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