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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 specta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Comolli, Jean-Louis (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Fairfax, Daniel (Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:Translation from the French of Cinéma, contre spectacle.
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]
Series:Film theory in media history.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Philosophy.
PERFORMING ARTS / General
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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?