CINEMATIC SABOTAGES: HITCHCOCK, TARANTINO, AND ALMODÓVAR by Stallings, Gregory Charles

“…The literal sabotage in Hitchcock’s film (the placement of bombs in relation to cinema) is combined with the murder of the husband (treating him like a piece of meat) in order to constitute a figure of radical cinema not only as anti-auretic art (in the sense of the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction according to Walter Benjamin) but also, in terms of Manuel Asensi, as an athtetic text in which the enthymematic syllogism which informs the fascist model of the world (society and politics are like an artistic work based on pure forms) is deconstructed. …”
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