The Society of the Spectacle (1973)

Original title

La Société du spectacle

Directed by

Guy Debord

Genre

documentary film, essay film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 31m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film adapts Guy Debord's book about how mass media and marketing turn people into passive consumers. It uses clips from other movies and ads to argue that society's images are fake and separate us from real life.

cerebralbleakslow-burnpoliticalunsettlingdidacticdarkly comicfragmented

What happens

La Société du Spectacle (English: Society of the Spectacle) is a black-and-white 1974 film by the Situationist Guy Debord, based on his 1967 book of the same name. It was Debord's first feature-length film. It uses found footage and détournement in a radical Marxist critique of mass marketing and its role in the alienation of modern society. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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