Guy Debord: Complete Cinematic Works: Scripts, Stills, Documents

Langue : anglais

Edité par AK Press, Oakland and Edinburgh, 2003

1902593731 / 9781902593739

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xi, 258 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. *** "Guy Debord (1931-1994) was the most influential member of the Situationist International, the avant-garde group that triggered the May 1968 revolt in France. His book The Society of the Spectacle is considered the most important theoretical work of the 20th century. But while Debord's written work is some of the most notorious in the world of political and cultural radicality, deemed 'the cornerstone cliche of postmodernism,' his films have until now remained tantalizingly inaccessible. After being withdrawn from circulation for nearly two decades (by Debord himself, to call attention to the 1984 assassination of the producer of the films, Gerard Lebovici), all six films were featured in a special "Guy Debord -Retrospective" at the 2001 Venice Film Festival and re--released in France in 2002. The most famous of the films is Debord's cinematic adaptation of his own book, The Society of the Spectacle. As passages from the book are read in voiceover, the text is illuminated, via direct illustration or various types of ironic contrast, by clips from Russian and Hollywood features (Battleship Potemkin, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Johnny Guitar, etc.), TV commercials, softcore porn, newsreels and documentary footage. Some of the other films evoke Debord's adventures in the bohemian underworld of Paris during the 1950s, and in others Debord attacks the film medium itself, directly challenging the viewer by critiquing the traditional separation of spectacle and spectator. Ken Knabb's translation of Debord's Complete Cinematic Works accompanies the long-awaited English versions of these films, which will be coming to the United States in 2003. The scripts are illustrated with 62 stills, and Debord's own annotations help elucidate the subtleties of these astonishing works, which are like nothing else in cinema history. / Guy Debord was the founder of the Situationist International, the notorious avant-garde group that triggered the May 1968 revolt in France. His most notable work, 'The Society of the Spectacle,' has been translated into 15+ languages and has sold over 30,000 copies in English to date. He committed suicide (suffering from a debilitating illness) in 1994. Ken Knabb edited and translated the highly regarded -Situationist International Anthology." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

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Titre
Guy Debord: Complete Cinematic Works: Scripts, Stills, Documents
Auteur
Debord, Guy; Knabb, Ken (Translated and Edited by)
Éditeur
AK Press, Oakland and Edinburgh
Année de publication
2003
État de l'article
Fine
Jaquette
Fine
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1902593731
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781902593739
Catalogues du vendeur
European::9. Contemporary, European::French, Film & TV, Movements::Situationism, XO::Standard, XXX::COLLECTIBLES

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