1st Edition
The Situationist International and the Social Space of Film With and Against Cinema
Introduction: With and Against. 1. Détournement, Social Space and the Cinema 2. Between Auteur and Collective 3. Crossed Paths: The Situationists and Young Cinema 4. From Asocial Space to Entrapment 5. Desire, Détournement and the Feminine 6. Détournement Lost and Found 7. Cinema Détourned. Conclusion: With and Against and Without
Biography
Jennifer Stob is a film programmer and associate professor of art history at Texas State University. She is a scholar of media theory, experimental film and transnational cinema. Her contributions to edited volumes include chapters in The Sustainable Legacy of Agnès Varda: Feminist Practice and Pedagogy (2022), On Women’s Films: Across Worlds and Generations (2019) and Architectures of Revolt: The Cinematic City circa 1968 (2018).
"The argument is original and a fresh, novel approach, quite necessary to a rather congested field of study. It stands apart in this sense. It is also dazzlingly well researched. Stob is nothing short of totally thorough in her review of and dialogue with the extant literature."
Jaleh Mansoor, University of British Colombia, Vancouver, Canada
“Between denunciation and appropriation, détournement and nostalgic longing, the Situationist International had a famously vexed relationship with the cinema, the twists and turns of which accompanied the group and its key members. Jennifer Stob provides a history of this relationship that is both rigorously researched and a scintillating read.”
Daniel Fairfax, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany
