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Jean-Louis Comolli
Jean-Louis Comolli (30 July 1941 – 19 May 2022) was a French writer, editor, and film director. Career Comolli was editor in chief of ''Cahiers du cinéma'' from 1966 to 1978, during which period he wrote the influential essays "Machines of the Visible" (1971) and "Technique and Ideology: Camera, Perspective, Depth of Field" (1971–72), both of which have been translated in English anthologies of film and media studies. This work was important in the discussion on apparatus theory, an attempt to rethink cinema as a site for the production and maintenance of Louis Althusser#Ideological state apparatuses, dominant state ideology in the wake of May 1968. After his tenure at ''Cahiers'', Comolli continued his work as a director and has since published numerous works on film theory, documentary, and jazz. He taught film theory at the Universities of Paris VIII, Barcelona, Strasburg and Genève. In the spring of 2008, Comolli was invited to the Visions du réel documentary film f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippeville, Algeria
Skikda ( ar, سكيكدة; formerly Philippeville from 1838 to 1962 and Rusicade in ancient times) is a city in northeastern Algeria and a port on the Mediterranean. It is the capital of Skikda Province and Skikda District. History The Phoenicians and Carthaginians established a trading post and fort named (, "Jug Headland, Cape") after Skikda's nearby cape. Falling under Roman Republic, Roman hegemony after the Punic Wars, the name was latinization of names, Latinized as Rusicade or Rusiccade. Rusicade contained the largest Roman theatre (structure), Roman theatre in Algeria, dating to the reign of Hadrian. In late antiquity, the port was destroyed during the Vandals' invasion of 530. The Byzantine Empire, Byzantines Vandal War, reconquered the region in 533 and 534, but left large areas under Berber control. The town Islamic conquest of the Maghreb, was overrun by the Umayyad Caliphate at the end of the 7th century. Present-day Skikda was founded by Sylvain Charles Valée i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marseille De Père En Fils - Coup De Mistral
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern France, it is located on the coast of the Gulf of Lion, part of the Mediterranean Sea, near the mouth of the Rhône river. Its inhabitants are called ''Marseillais''. Marseille is the second most populous city in France, with 870,731 inhabitants in 2019 (Jan. census) over a municipal territory of . Together with its suburbs and exurbs, the Marseille metropolitan area, which extends over , had a population of 1,873,270 at the Jan. 2019 census, the third most populated in France after those of Paris and Lyon. The cities of Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, and 90 suburban municipalities have formed since 2016 the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis, an indirectly elected metropolitan authority now in charge of wider metropolitan issues, with a population ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
