Debord in Watts: Race and Class Antagonisms Under Spectacle

In this paper, I explore Guy Debord’s analysis of race and racializing processes by closely examining the use of footage of the Watts rebellion in Debord’s film The Society of the Spectacle (1973), along with a close reading of Debord’s 1965 text on the uprising, “The Decline and Fall of the Spectac...

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Main Author: Heath Schultz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cultural Studies Association 2018-06-01
Series:Lateral
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.25158/L7.1.6

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