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Dominican Rep. The Society of the Spectacle
- Original title
- La Société du spectacle
- Year
- 1973
- Running time
- 88 min.
- Country
France- Director
- Screenwriter
- Guy Debord. Novel: Guy Debord
- Cast
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- Cinematography
Guy Debord (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Documentary | Experimental Cinema
- Synopsis
- The 90 minute film took a year to make and incorporates footage from The Battleship Potemkin, October, The New Babylon, Shanghai Gesture, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Rio Grande, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Johnny Guitar, and Confidential Report, as well as Soviet and Polish films, industrial films, American Westerns, news footage, advertisements, many still photographs, and footage of semi-naked women.[1] Events such as the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald (who assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1963), the revolutions in Spain in 1936, Hungary in 1956 and in Paris in 1968, and people such as Mao Zedong, Richard Nixon, and the Spanish Anarchist Durruti are represented. Throughout the movie, there is both a voiceover (of Debord) and inter-titles from "Society of the Spectacle" but also texts from the Committee of Occupation of the Sorbonne, Machiavelli, Marx, Tocqueville, Emile Pouget, and Soloviev.
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