The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle

by Jonathan Beller

"Cinema brings the industrial revolution to the eye," writes Jonathan Beller, "and engages spectators in increasingly dematerialized processes of social production." In his groundbreaking critical study, cinema is the paradigmatic example of how the act of looking has been construed by capital as "productive labor." Through an examination of cinema over the course of the twentieth century, Beller establishes on both theoretical and historical grounds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584655836
• ISBN13: 9781584655831
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: University Press of New England
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"