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Cinema Against Spectacle : Technique and Ideology Revisited /

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 specta...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Comolli, Jean-Louis (Author)
Other Authors: Fairfax, Daniel (Contributor, Editor), Rosen, Philip (Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2022]
Series:Film Theory in Media History
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • II. Depth of Field: The Double Scene
  • III. "Primitive" Depth of Field
  • IV. Effacement of Depth/Advent of Speech
  • V. Which Speech?
  • Appendix I: Cinema/Ideology/Criticism
  • Appendix II: Machines of the Visible
  • Glossary of Terms
  • Publication History
  • Filmography
  • Bibliography
  • Translator's Notes
  • Index
  • Film Theory in Media History