Encounters with Godard
Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics
1st Edition
Published on 9. May 2016
338 pages
978-1-4384-6064-2 (ISBN)
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A wide-ranging and accessible approach to Godard's later work, and a major intervention in the study of film and ethics.
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English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
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Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
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Reflowable
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Total Illustrations: 90
Total Illustrations: 90
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978-1-4384-6064-2 (9781438460642)
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James S. Williams is Professor of Modern French Literature and Film at Royal Holloway, University of London. His books include Space and Being in Contemporary French Cinema; Gender and French Cinema (coedited with Alex Hughes); and The Erotics of Passage: Pleasure, Politics, and Form in the Later Work of Marguerite Duras.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Encountering Godard
1. The Politics of Violence and the End(s) of Art: Speaking (for) the Other in La Chinoise (1967)
2. The Signs in Our Midst: European Culture and Artistic Resistance in Histoire(s) du cinéma (1988-98)
3. Beyond the Cinematic Body: Digital Rhythms and In/human Breakdown
4. Silence, Gesture, Revelation: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Montage in Godard and Agamben
5. Music, Love, and the Cinematic Event
6. Crossing the Darkness: Metaphor, Difference, Dissymmetry in Notre Musique(2004)
7. Entering the Desert: Giving Face in Film socialisme (2010)
8. Soft and Hard/Back to Back: Erotic Encounters between Voice and Image in the Zone
Coda: Cinema after Language
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Encountering Godard
1. The Politics of Violence and the End(s) of Art: Speaking (for) the Other in La Chinoise (1967)
2. The Signs in Our Midst: European Culture and Artistic Resistance in Histoire(s) du cinéma (1988-98)
3. Beyond the Cinematic Body: Digital Rhythms and In/human Breakdown
4. Silence, Gesture, Revelation: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Montage in Godard and Agamben
5. Music, Love, and the Cinematic Event
6. Crossing the Darkness: Metaphor, Difference, Dissymmetry in Notre Musique(2004)
7. Entering the Desert: Giving Face in Film socialisme (2010)
8. Soft and Hard/Back to Back: Erotic Encounters between Voice and Image in the Zone
Coda: Cinema after Language
Notes
Works Cited
Select Filmography/Discography
Index
