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WAR AND CINEMA
LOGISTICS OF PERCEPTION |
| By: |
Paul Virilio, P. Camiller (Trans) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£13.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0860919285 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780860919285 |
| Publisher: |
VERSO BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
18 May, 1989 |
| Pages: |
95 |
| Language: |
English & French |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Description: |
Looking at how the technologies of cinema and warfare have developed a fatal interdependence, this book explores these conjunctions from a range of perspectives. It gives a detailed technical history of weaponry, photography and cinematography, with accounts of films and military campaigns. |
| Synopsis: |
From the synchronised camera/machine-guns on the biplanes of World War One to the laser satellites of Star Wars, the technologies of cinema and warfare have developed a fatal interdependence. Hiroshima marked one conclusion of this process in the nuclear 'flash' which penetrated the city's darkest recesses, etching the images of its victims on the walls. Since the disappearance of direct vision in battle and the replacement of one-to-one combat by the remote and murderous son et lumiere of trench warfare, military strategy has been dominated by the struggle between visibility and invisibility, surveillance and camouflage. Perception and destruction have now become coterminous. Paul Virilio, one of the most radical French critics of contemporary culture, explores these conjunctions from a range of perspectives. He gives a detailed technical jistory of weaponry, photography and cinematography, illuminating it with accounts of films and military campaigns. He examines in parallel the ideas of strategists and directors, along with views on war and cinema of writers from Apollinaire to William Burrroughs.And he finds further fruitful sources of reflection in the history of cinema architecture or the wartime popularity of striptease and pin-up. The result is a rich and suggestive analysis for military 'ways of seeing', and a disturbing account of how these have now permeated our culture: 'Warsaw, Beirut, Belfast...the streets themselves have become a permanent film-set for army cameras or the tourist reporters of global civil war. |
| Illustrations: |
50 b&w photographs |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Verso Books |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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