#Society of the spectacle tv#

A DVD box set titled Guy Debord: Oeuvres cinématographiques complètes was released in 2005 and contains Debord's seven films. I have completed various projects engaged with the book and have. Since Debord's suicide in 1994, Debord's wife Alice Becker-Ho has been promoting Debord's film. The book is, simply, a scan of my copy of The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord. In 1984, Debord withdrew his films from circulation because of the negative press and the assassination of his friend and patron Gerard Lebovici. Kennedy in 1963), the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939, the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the Paris riots in May 1968, along with clips of people such as Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Richard Nixon and the Spanish anarchist Durruti. Indebted to Marxist critical theory, Debords work introduced. įootage of historical events is included, such as the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald (the assassin of U.S. Guy Debord published La socite du spectacle in 1967, with his film version appearing in 1973. In addition, the words of some of the authors are détourned through deliberate misquoting. Without citations, these quotes are hard to decipher, especially with the conflicting subtitles (which exist even in the French version): but that is part of Debord's goal to 'problematize reception' (Greil and Sanborn) and force the viewer to be active. Throughout the film, there are intertitles consisting of quotations from The Society of the Spectacle, along with Debord (in voice-over) reading texts from Marx, Machiavelli, the 1968 Occupation Committee of the Sorbonne, Tocqueville, Émile Pouget, and Sergey Solovyov and others.

The feature films include The Battleship Potemkin, October, Chapaev, The New Babylon, The Shanghai Gesture, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Rio Grande, They Died with Their Boots On, Johnny Guitar, and Mr.

#Society of the spectacle tv#

The 88 minute film took a year to make and incorporates an apparent jumble of footage from feature films juxtaposed with still photographs, industrial films, early 1970s glossy 'lifestyle' TV ads, and news footage of unrest in the streets.