TY - BOOK AU - Comolli,Jean-Louis TI - Cinema against Spectacle: Technique and Ideology Revisited T2 - Film Theory in Media History SN - 9789089645548 PY - 2015/// PB - Amsterdam University Press KW - Film theory & criticism KW - bicssc KW - André Bazin KW - cahiers du cinéma KW - Depth of field KW - film history KW - film theory KW - ideology cinema and politics KW - Paris N1 - Open Access N2 - 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 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 - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32378 UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/568ddf50-85b5-421d-bb51-5bdee933369b/611591.pdf ER -