Cinema against spectacle

Download or read book Cinema against spectacle written by Jean-Louis Comolli and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-09 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Louis Comollis 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. This volume brings together annotated translations of these two texts to provide an overview of Comollis activity as both a theorist and a filmmaker.