Cinema against spectacle : technique and ideology revisited /

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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 spect...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Comolli, Jean-Louis (Author)
Other Authors: Fairfax, Daniel (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]
Series:Film theory in media history.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Philosophy.
Cinéma > Philosophie.
Film theory and criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS / General
Motion pictures > Philosophy
Film Theory, Ideology, Cinema and Politics, Film History, Cahiers du cinéma.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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?

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