The supermarket of the visible : toward a general economy of images /

The Supermarket of the Visible elaborates a political economy of the images that saturate our world. From the first elevators and escalators (tracking shots avant la lettre) to cinema (the great conductor of gazes), all the way down to contemporary eye-tracking techniques that monitor the slightest...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Szendy, Peter (Author)
Other Authors: Plug, Jan (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
French
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Thinking out loud (New York, N.Y.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; The Supermarket of the Visible; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Sydney Lectures; 1. Money, or The Other Side of Images; 2. The Point of (No) Exchange, or The Debt-Image; 3. Innervation, or The Gaze of Capital; Additional Features; Merchandise: Godzilla's Eye; Deleted Scenes: Doors and Slide Changers in Pickpocket and Obsession; Deleted Scenes: Three Variations on Time and Money (Antonioni, De Palma, Bresson); Photo Gallery: Blow-Up, or Why There Are No Images; Locations: 23, rue BĂ©nard, Paris, 75014; Deleted Scene: The Fluctuations of the Unchained Camera (L'Herbier)
  • Deleted Scenes: The General Fetishism of the MarxesDeleted Scenes: The Amortization of the Gaze (King Kong); Formats: Surplus Definition (Redacted); Credits; Notes; Index; AUTHOR BIOS