TY - BOOK AU - Comolli,Jean-Louis AU - Fairfax,Daniel AU - Fairfax,Daniel AU - Rosen,Philip TI - Cinema Against Spectacle: Technique and Ideology Revisited T2 - Film Theory in Media History SN - 9789048519453 PY - 2022///] CY - Amsterdam : PB - Amsterdam University Press, KW - Motion pictures KW - Philosophy KW - History KW - Film Studies KW - Film, Media, and Communication KW - ART / Film & Video KW - bisacsh KW - Film Theory, Ideology, Cinema and Politics, Film History, Cahiers du cinéma N1 - 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 N2 - 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 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048519453 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048519453 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048519453/original ER -