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The Society of the Spectacle (La société du spectacle) (1974)

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Guy Debord Guy Debord
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Leonid Brezhnev Leonid Brezhnev
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Fidel Castro Fidel Castro
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Jacques Duclos Jacques Duclos
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Nino Ferrer Nino Ferrer
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Johnny Hallyday Johnny Hallyday
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George Harrison George Harrison
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Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler
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Guy Debord Guy Debord
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Description: Guy Debord's landmark cinematic analysis of consumer society is based on his influential sociological book "La société du spectacle" (1967). Debord was a leading member of the avant-garde art movement 'Situationist International'. This cinematic essay uses their method of 'détournement' to decontextualize and rearrange preexisting audiovisual materials and texts to critizise them and create new meaning. The result is a subversive collage of ideological (moving) images from socialist and capitalist societies that are presented here as artefacts of a global media 'spectacle': Social relations between people are mediat ... (more)
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