Hey Guys,
I know that we have actively engaged with the idea of the separation that is caused when a set and a stage is inserted between the spectator and the actor, and the inherent social inequity that this separation suggests. While we have rigorously examined this concept in relation to theatre (our obvious pick) I realize that it might be interesting for you to examine it in the context of cinema. Guy Debord was a marxist theorist, as with Boal, who worked in film, narrative and theory. Society of the Spectacle is acually a "filmic retelling" of his work of theory by the same title, and engages with many of Boal's concepts, in particular the voyeuristic and priviledged view of the spectator *at* the spectacle. You can watch the whole of Debord's Society of the Spectacle on YouTube, I have attached the first segment here:
WARNING: if you have any aversions to images that are midly pornographic or insinuate violence then you should not view this.
Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle
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