War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception

By Paul Virilio

Book Overview

Reveals the convergence of perception and destruction in the parallel technologies of warfare and cinema. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0860919285
• ISBN13: 9780860919285
• Release Date: July 1989
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.5" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

a short parallel history of war and cinema

War and Cinema, violence and spectacle. Hitler watching "Gone with the Wind" with Lenni Reifenstahl and Albert Speer. A brilliant study full of intuition on the development of war technologies in 20th century and the way they were influencing and influenced by vision and perception technologies.