For Whom the Bell Tolls
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| - | '''''La Société du spectacle''''' ('''''Society of the Spectacle''''') is a [[1973]] film by [[Situationist]] [[Guy Debord]] based on the 1967 book of the ''[[Society of the Spectacle|same title]]''. It was Debord’s first feature-length film and was financed by [[Gérard Lebovici]]'s [[Simar Films]]. | ||
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| - | The 90 minute film took a year to make and incorporates [[footage]] from ''[[The Battleship Potemkin]], [[October (film)|October]], [[New Babylon]], [[Shanghai Gesture]], [[For Whom the Bell Tolls]], [[Rio Grande]], [[The Charge of the Light Brigade (film)|The Charge of the Light Brigade]], [[Johnny Guitar]]'', and ''[[Confidential Report]]'', as well as Soviet and Polish films, [[industrial film]]s, [[Western (film)|American Western]]s, [[soft-core]] [[porn film]]s, [[news footage]], [[advertisement]]s, and many [[still photograph]]s. 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 Tse Tung]], [[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]]. Without citations, these quotes are hard to decipher, especially with the 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. | ||
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| - | In 1984, Debord withdrew his films from circulation because of the negative press and the assassination of his friend and [[patron]] [[Gérard Lebovici]]. Since Debord’s suicide in 1994, Debord’s wife [[Alice Becker-Ho]] has been promoting Debord’s film. A DVD box set titled ''Guy Debord: Oeuvres cinématographiques complètes'' came out in 2005 and contains Debord’s seven films. | ||
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| - | == Sources == | ||
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| - | *Marcus, Greil and Sanborn, “On the films of Guy Debord”, Keith; Feature; Artforum; February 2006 | ||
| - | *Bracken, Len; Guy Debord: Revolutionary; Feral House; 1997; California | ||
| - | *Knabb, Ken; Guy Debord’s Complete Cinematic Works; AK Press; 1978; Canada | ||
| - | *Marshall, Peter; Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism; Fontana Press; 1992; London | ||
| - | *Lasn, Kalle; Culture Jam: How to Reverse America’s Suicidal Consumer Binge- And Why We Must; Quill; 1999; New York | ||
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| - | ==External links== | ||
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| - | *[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5776914999756420568 Society of the Spectacle on google video] | ||
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| - | Google video says: "The 1973 film by French Situationist Guy Debord, based on the 1967 book of the same title, shows the dominating oppression of modernization ... all » of both the private and public spheres of everyday life by economic forces. The hegemonic mass media operates as a propaganda machine in both communist and capitalist nations and creates commodity fetishism in the minds of the masses." | ||
| - | ==See also== | ||
| - | *[[Situationist film]] | ||
| + | '''''For Whom the Bell Tolls''''' is a novel by [[Ernest Hemingway]] published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the [[International Brigades]] attached to a [[Second Spanish Republic|republican]] [[guerrilla]] unit during the [[Spanish Civil War]]. As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of [[Segovia]]. The novel is regarded as one of Hemingway's best works, along with ''[[The Sun Also Rises]]'', ''[[The Old Man and the Sea]]'', and ''[[A Farewell to Arms]]. | ||
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For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia. The novel is regarded as one of Hemingway's best works, along with The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, and A Farewell to Arms.
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