What makes this villain ignorant between the society of control and the crisis of action?

Abstract

For the philosopher Gilles Deleuze, the societies of control replaced the ancient disciplinary societies studied by Michel Foucault. At the same time, still according to Deleuze, the cinema was undergoing a mutation itself, the movement-image to the time-image. Between the two regimes of images, it was developed a cinema of transition that both testified the dismantling of the sensory-motor image (movement-image), and the constitution of the time-image (with the pure optical and sound images). Our hypothesis is that the two mutations (that of post-industrial society and cinema) have points of contact and we’ll try to show them through the film The Red Light Bandit (1968), from Rogerio Sganzerla, a film that features the transitionbetween the two systems of images.