Breathless
Jean-Luc Godard, Director
Published on 1. January 1988
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-0-8135-1253-2 (ISBN)
Description
Breathless, a low-budget film, came to be regarded as one of the major accomplishments of the French New Wave cinema of the early sixties. It had a tremendous influence on French filmmakers and on world cinema in general. Beyond its significance in film history, it was also a film of considerable cultural impact. In Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard captured the spirit of a disillusioned generation and fashioned a style, which drew on the past, to parade that disillusionment.
In his introduction, Dudley Andrew brilliantly explains what Godard set out to accomplish in Breathless. He illuminates the intertextual and cultural references of the film and the tensions within it between tradition and innovation. This volume also features, for the first time in English, the complete and accurate continuity script of Breathless, together with Francois Truffaut's surprisingly detailed original treatment. Also included are an in-depth selection of reviews and criticism in French and English; a brief biographical sketch of the director's life that covers the development of his career, as well as a filmography and selected bibliography.
In his introduction, Dudley Andrew brilliantly explains what Godard set out to accomplish in Breathless. He illuminates the intertextual and cultural references of the film and the tensions within it between tradition and innovation. This volume also features, for the first time in English, the complete and accurate continuity script of Breathless, together with Francois Truffaut's surprisingly detailed original treatment. Also included are an in-depth selection of reviews and criticism in French and English; a brief biographical sketch of the director's life that covers the development of his career, as well as a filmography and selected bibliography.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Brunswick NJ
United States
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
358 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8135-1253-2 (9780813512532)
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DUDLEY ANDREW is a professor of film studies and comparative literature at Yale University. He is the author of Concepts in Film Theory, Andre? Bazin, Film in the Aura of Art, and other books on film.
Content
Introduction
Breathless: Old as New / 3
Dudley Andrew
Jean-Luc Godard: A Biographical
Sketch / 21
Breathless
Credits and Cast / 31
The Continuity Script / 33
Notes on the Continuity Script / 147
The Original Treatment, Francois
Truffaut / 153
Interviews, Reviews, and Commentaries
Interview with Godard
Yvonne Baby, Le Monde, March 18, 1960 / 165
Jean-Luc Godard, "I'm Not Out of Breath," Art, March 1960 / 167
Films and Filming, September 1961 / 169
Cahier du Cinema, December 1962 / 171
Statements
Geoges de Beauregard, Producer, 1963 / 175
Raoul Coutard, Director of Photography, 1963 / 175
Francois Truffaut, 1963 / 177
Reviews
Le Monde, Jean de Baroncelli / 181
Arts, Pierre Marcabru / 183
Le Figaro Litteraire, Claude Mauriac / 184
Le Figaro, Louis Chauvet / 186
Variety, Gene Moskowitz / 188
Sight and Sound, Louis Marcorelles / 189
The New York Times, Bosley Crowther / 191
The New York Republic, Stanley Kauffmann / 193
Times / 195
Film Quarterly, Arlene Croce / 197
Esquire, Dwight MacDonald / 200
The Times (London) / 203
Films and Filming, Gordon Gow / 204
Commentaries
Jean-Luc Gordard, Luc Moullet / 209
On Breathless, Jean Carta / 215
A Bout de Souffle, Charles Barr / 220
The Graphic in Filmic Writing, Marie-Claire Ropars / 224
Filmography and Bibliography
Gordard Filmography, 1954-1985 / 235
Selected Bibliography / 239
Breathless: Old as New / 3
Dudley Andrew
Jean-Luc Godard: A Biographical
Sketch / 21
Breathless
Credits and Cast / 31
The Continuity Script / 33
Notes on the Continuity Script / 147
The Original Treatment, Francois
Truffaut / 153
Interviews, Reviews, and Commentaries
Interview with Godard
Yvonne Baby, Le Monde, March 18, 1960 / 165
Jean-Luc Godard, "I'm Not Out of Breath," Art, March 1960 / 167
Films and Filming, September 1961 / 169
Cahier du Cinema, December 1962 / 171
Statements
Geoges de Beauregard, Producer, 1963 / 175
Raoul Coutard, Director of Photography, 1963 / 175
Francois Truffaut, 1963 / 177
Reviews
Le Monde, Jean de Baroncelli / 181
Arts, Pierre Marcabru / 183
Le Figaro Litteraire, Claude Mauriac / 184
Le Figaro, Louis Chauvet / 186
Variety, Gene Moskowitz / 188
Sight and Sound, Louis Marcorelles / 189
The New York Times, Bosley Crowther / 191
The New York Republic, Stanley Kauffmann / 193
Times / 195
Film Quarterly, Arlene Croce / 197
Esquire, Dwight MacDonald / 200
The Times (London) / 203
Films and Filming, Gordon Gow / 204
Commentaries
Jean-Luc Gordard, Luc Moullet / 209
On Breathless, Jean Carta / 215
A Bout de Souffle, Charles Barr / 220
The Graphic in Filmic Writing, Marie-Claire Ropars / 224
Filmography and Bibliography
Gordard Filmography, 1954-1985 / 235
Selected Bibliography / 239