The Society of the Spectacle (1974)
La Société du spectacle
Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.
- Date of release
- 1974-05-01
- TMDB
- 6.7 / 10 (25)
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Guy Debord
Casting
- Leonid Brezhnev — Self (archive footage)
- Fidel Castro — Self (archive footage)
- Guy Debord — Narrator (voice)
- Jacques Duclos — Self (archive footage)
- Robert Fabre — Self (archive footage)
- Nino Ferrer — Self (archive footage)
- Valéry Giscard d'Estaing — Self (archive footage)
- Johnny Hallyday — Self (archive footage)
- George Harrison — Self (archive footage)
- Henry Kissinger — Self (archive footage)
- Alexei Kosygin — Self (archive footage)
- Mao Zedong — Self (archive footage)
Interesting facts
- Based on: The Society of the Spectacle
La Société du 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.
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