Cinema

ANTONIN ARTAUD (1896-1948) - whose theorizations on spectacle also point to the distorted links between Western culture and life - had an ambiguous and complex relationship with cinema; as one of his biographers points out, he always oscillated between the suspicion that the nascent industry was only a dishonest means of earning a living - "I am obliged to make films to eat"; "one cannot work in the cinema without being ashamed" - and the hope that this new form of expression might allow hi...