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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807666503321

Autore

Beller Jonathan

Titolo

The cinematic mode of production : attention economy and the society of the spectacle / / Jonathan Beller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hanover, N.H., : Dartmouth College Press, : University Press of New England, c2006

ISBN

1-280-67810-0

9786613655035

1-61168-382-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 p.)

Collana

Interfaces, studies in visual culture

Disciplina

791.4301

Soggetti

Motion picture industry

Motion pictures - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Political Economy of the Postmodern; Part I; 1 | Circulation: Dziga Vertov and the Film of Money; 2 | Production: The Spectatorship of the Proletariat; 3 | The Unconscious: The Unconscious of the Unconscious, or, The Work of Consciousness in the Age of Technological Imagination; Part II; 4 | Inspiration of Objects, Expiration of Words: Cinema, Capital of the Twentieth Century; 5 | The Pyrotechnics of Control: Numismatics of the Sensual, Calculus of the Image

6 | Proprioception: Killer-Eye, Killer World: The Media-Environmentfor Natural Born KillersEpilogue: Paying Attention; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A revolutionary reconceptualization of capital and perception during the twentieth century.