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1.  Thomas Levin «Dismantling the Spectacle: The cinema of Guy Debord »Ciné qua non«: Guy Debord and Filmic Practice as Theory»[38] Guy Debord, Contre le cinéma (Aarhus, Denmark: L´Institut scandinave de vandalisme comparé/Bibliothèque d´Alexandrie, 1964). This volume, now out of print, includes the complete scenarios and selected images from Debord´s first three films («Hurlements en faveur de Sade,» «Sur le passage de quelques personnes à travers une assez courte unite de temps,» and «Critique de la séparation») along with a prefatory essay by Asger Jorn entitled «Guy Debord et le problème du maudit» (3-8). The German translation by Pierre Gallissaires and Hanna Mittelstädt entitled Gegen den Film: Filmskripte, Hamburg: Edition Nautilus, 1978, drops three of the four explanatory notes that follow the scenario of «Hurlements,» but provides the full text of «Grande fête de la nuit» under the title «Eine große Nachtfete«. [more]  |
| 2. Thomas Levin «Dismantling the Spectacle: The cinema of Guy Debord »Ciné qua non«: Guy Debord and Filmic Practice as Theory» the totality of his cinematic ouevre simply in terms of the basic formal gesture of «Hurlements» (see the «Hurlements en faveur de Sade»)—because it is here, in the anti-image politics of his Lettrist success de scandal that the essentially cinematic [more] |
