Debord Guy

Guy Debord (eBook, ePUB)

Complete Cinematic Works
Redaktion: Knabb Ken

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Guy Debord, founder of the Situationist International, fomenter of the May 1968 revolt in France, and author of The Society of the Spectacle, was also the creator of six tantalizingly inaccessible films. Technically and aesthetically, these films are among the most brilliantly innovative works in the history of the cinema. But they are not so much "works of art" as carefully calculated subversive provocations.

Following the still-unsolved Mafia-style assassination of the films' financer and producer in 1984, all the films were withdrawn from circulation for nearly twenty years. One of the films is an adaptation of Debord's book The Society of the Spectacle. Others evoke his adventures in the bohemian underworld of 1950s Paris, which he contrasts with the increasingly ignorant, ugly, and alienated world that has since been produced by modern capitalism. In each case Debord simultaneously attacks the film medium itself, challenging spectators to create their own adventures instead of passively consuming the pseudo-adventures that are presented to them.

Ken Knabb's meticulous translation of all the filmscripts (which Debord's widow Alice asked him to make to accompany the long-awaited rerelease of the films, beginning with a complete retrospective at the Venice Film Festival) is supplemented with numerous illustrations and documents and elucidated by extensive annotations. For this new edition Knabb has revised the translations, updated the filmography, and added the scathing video that Debord made shortly before his death: Guy Debord, His Art and His Time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: PM Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798887441566
• Artikelnr.: 76009050

Autorenporträt

Guy Debord was the founder of the Situationist International (1957), the editor of its journal Internationale Situationniste (1958-69), the author of several books, and the creator of seven films, including one based on his book The Society of the Spectacle.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents of Guy Debord’s Complete Cinematic Works:
INTRODUCTION
SCRIPTS[*]
Howls for Sade (1952)
On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time (1959)
Critique of Separation (1961)
The Society of the Spectacle (1973)
Refutation of All the Judgments, Pro or Con, Thus Far Rendered on the Film
The Society of the Spectacle (1975)
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (1978)
Guy Debord, His Art and His Time (1994)
DOCUMENTS
A User’s Guide to Détournement (excerpts)
Technical Notes on the First Three Films
Letter about On the Passage...
For a Revolutionary Judgment of Art (excerpts)
On The Society of the Spectacle (reply to a critic of the book)
Cinema and Revolution
On The Society of the Spectacle (announcement of the film)
The Use of Stolen Films
The Themes of In girum imus nocte...
Instructions to the In girum Sound Engineer
NOTES
CHRONOLOGY
FILMOGRAPHY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX