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The Hollywood interviews
15 ans de cinéma américain
by - Collectif
Translated by John Flowers
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"The relationship between the filmmaker and the idea of the auteur is fundamental to the history of US cinema. Whenever their position is in danger the principal auteurs have always shown that they can be first-rate filmmakers, and it is no doubt because they are the best that in the end they always win.
The interviews in this book are full of rich insights into the position of the auteur caught between the rigors of an economic system driven by demand and the desire to express himself personally, they also reflect the constant to-ing and fro-ing between the film industry and its most talented filmmakers.
Acknowledgments
The interviews in this book were conducted for Cahiers du Cinéma at different times and in different places. Details on each one can be found at the end of the book." |
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Cahiers du cinéma
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Berg
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2006
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154
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1845204417
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| Writer, artist, filmmaker, provocateur, revolutionary, and impresario of the Situationist International, Guy Debord shunned the apparatus of publicity he dissected so brilliantly in his most influential work, The Society of the Spectacle. In this ambitious and innovative biography, Vincent Kaufmann places Debord´s very hostility toward the inquisitive, biographical gaze at the center of an investigation into his subject´s diverse output-from his earliest films to his landmark works of social theory and political provocation-and the poetic sensibility that informed both his work and his life. Instead of providing a conventional day-to-day account of Debord´s life, Kaufmann deftly locates his subject within the historical and intellectual context of the radical social, political, and artistic movements in which he participated. He traces Debord´s development as an intellectual: his involvement with the Lettrist movement in the early 1950s, his central role in the Situationist International from 1957 to 1971 and in the events of May 1968, and the productive and frequently misunderstood period between the dissolution of the situationists and his suicide, during which time Debord clarified the rules of his war against inauthenticity. As Kaufmann makes clear, for Debord political thought and action were inseparable from aesthetics and poetic expression. Whether envisioning the recovery of a lost, protocommunist age of authenticity and transparency in The Society of the Spectacle or critically assessing the possibility of revolution against postmodern capitalism two decades later, Debord advocated and practiced an art of defiance, a concurrently martial and melancholic poetics. Avoiding themythologies about Debord that both admirers and critics have cultivated, Kaufmann provides a groundbreaking and generous assessment of Debord and his uncompromising struggle against a corrupt civilization. |
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Guy Debord
Revolution in the Service of Poetry
Guy Debord : la révolution au service de la poésie
by Vincent Kaufmann
Translated by Robert Bononno
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First English Language Edition
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Fayard
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University of Minnesota Press
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2006
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370
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29.95
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0816644551
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Film Fables
La Fable cinématographique
by Jacques Rancière
Translated by Emiliano Battista
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Film Fables traces the history of modern cinema. Encyclopedic in scope, Film Fables is that rare work that manages to combine extraordinary breadth and analysis with a lyricism which attests time and again to a love of cinema. Jacques Ranciere moves effortlessly from Eisenstein´s and Murnau´s transition from theatre to film to Fritz Lang´s confrontation with television, from the classical poetics of Mann´s Westerns to Ray´s romantic poetics of the image, from Rossellini´s neo-realism to Deleuze´s philosophy of the cinema and Marker´s documentaries. Film Fables shows us how, between its images and its stories, the cinema tells its truth. |
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Le Seuil
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Berg
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2006
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256
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55 £
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1845201671
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The Archeology of Film and the Memory of a Century
Cinema is quite simply a unique book from one of the most influential film-makers in the history of cinema. Here, Jean-Luc Godard looks back on a century of film as well as his own work and career in the industry.
Born with the twentieth century, cinema became not just the century´s dominant art form but its best historian. Godard argues that - after the century of Chaplin and Pol Pot, Monroe and Hitler, Stalin and Mae West, Mao and the Marx Brothers - film and history are inextricably intertwined.
Against this backdrop, Godard presents his thoughts on film theory, cinematic technique, film histories, as well as the recent video revolution. As the conversation develops, Godard expounds on his central concerns - how film can "resurrect the past", the role of rhythm in film, and how cinema can be an "art that thinks".
Cinema: the archaeology of film and the memory of a century is a dialogue between Godard and the celebrated cinephile Youssef Ishaghpour. Here Godard comes closest to defining a lifetime´s obsession with cinema and cinema´s lifelong obsession with history. |
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Cinema
Archéologie du cinéma et mémoire du siècle. Dialogue
by Jean Luc Godard & Youssef Ishaghpour
Translated by John Howe
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First English Language Edition
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Farrago Editions
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Berg
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2005
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160
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10 £
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1845201973
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