The Civilization of the images – Interview with Jacques Aumont

Abstract

In this exclusive interview, granted to Professor Lisandro Nogueira, the French film theorist Jacques Aumont speaks of today’s civilization of Images, praises the canonical melodrama, discusses his most studied book in Brazil, “The Image” (another updated version will be published later this year in France), puts into perspective Guy Debord´s concept of Society of the Spectacle, and comments on the importance of modern cinema and Glauber Rocha.