René Viénet
French filmmaker and Sinologist
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Situationist International
- In Situationist International
…disbanding, the filmmaker and Sinologist René Viénet’s La Dialectique peut-elle casser des briques? (1973; Can Dialectics Break Bricks?) serves as a prime example of détournement in action. Viénet took an already existing Hong Kong martial arts film and replaced its dialogue, changing the meaning of the original story into a…
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