A Companion to Jean-Luc Godard
Published on 21. April 2014
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Other digital
576 pages
978-1-118-58681-5 (ISBN)
Description
This compendium of original essays offers invaluable insights into the life and works of one of the most important and influential directors in the history of cinema, exploring his major films, philosophy, politics, and connections to other critics and directors. Presents a compendium of original essays offering invaluable insights into the life and works of one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema Features contributions from an international cast of major film theorists and critics Provides readers with both an in-depth reading of Godard's major films and a sense of his evolution from the New Wave to his later political periods Brings fresh insights into the great director's biography, including reflections on his personal philosophy, politics, and connections to other critics and filmmakers Explores many of the 80 features Godard made in nearly 60 years, and includes coverage of his recent work in video
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 11 mm
Width: 13 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight
88 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-118-58681-5 (9781118586815)
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Tom Conley | T. Jefferson Kline
A Companion to Jean-Luc Godard
E-Book
04/2014
Wiley-Blackwell
€182.99
Available for download
Tom Conley | T. Jefferson Kline
A Companion to Jean-Luc Godard
E-Book
04/2014
Wiley-Blackwell
€182.99
Available for download
Persons
Tom Conley is Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and Visual & Environmental Studies at Harvard University. His publications include Film Hieroglyphs (2006), Cartographic Cinema (2007), An Errant Eye (2011), and others. T. Jefferson Kline is Professor of French at Boston University. His publications include Bertolucci's Dream Loom (1987), Screening the Text: Intertextuality and New Wave French Cinema (1992), Unraveling French Cinema (2010), and a variety of essays on French and European literature and film.
Content
Introduction 1. From Pen to Camera: Another Critic Jean-Michel Frodon 2. A bout de souffle : Trials in New Coherences Philip John Usher 3. Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut, I: Riding the New Wave Antoine de Baecque 4. "MEDICIS 15-37": Bernardo Bertolucci vs. Jean-Luc Godard Fabien Gerard 5. Un Femme est Infame: Godard's Writing Lesson Elizabeth Ezra 6. Michel Legrand Scores Une femme est une femme Kareem Roustom 7. Three-Way Mirroring in Vivre sa vie Maureen Turim 8. Commerce and The War of the Sexes: Laetitia Masson and Jean-Luc Godar Martine Beugnet 9. Les Carabiniers : BB Guns at War and at the Movies Gerald Peary 10. A Postmodern Consideration of Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mepris Emily Macaux 11. Totally, Tenderly, Tragically ... and in Color: Another Look at JLG's Le Mepris Steven Ungar 12. Le Mepris : Landscape as Tragedy Ludovic Cortade 13. Bande(s) a part: Godard's Contraband Poetry T. Jefferson Kline 14. Pierrot le fou and a Legacy of Forme Tom Conley 15. Godard's Wars Philip Watts 16. (De)collage : Bazin, Godard, Aragon Douglas Smith 17. The Children of Marx and Esso: Oil Companies and Cinematic Writing in 1960s Godard Thomas Odde 18. One or Two Points About Two or Three Things I Know About Her Jacqueline Levitin 19. The Subject in the Age of Radio-Telecommunications: Godard's and His Actors in Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle John Hulsey 20. Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut, II: The Decline of the Friendship Antoine de Baecque 21 La Chinoise ... et apres?: Aging Against Tradition Grace An 22. Community and Communication Marc Cerisuelo 23. On and Under Communication Michael Witt 24. Factories and the Factory Amie Siegel 25. Passion 's Ghost Murray Pomerance 26 Schizoanalyzing Souls: Godard, Deleuze, and the Mystical Line of Flight David Sterritt 27. Godard the Hegelian Daniel Fairfax 28. JLG/JLG Verena Andermatt Conley 29. Retrospective Godard Elisabeth Hodges 30. An Accurate Description of What Has Never Occurred: History, Virtuality, and Fiction in Godard Scott Durham 31. Noli me tangere: Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(e)s du cinema Kriss Ravetto-Biagiol 32. Godard the Historiographer: From Histoires du cinema to the Beaubourg Exhibition Trond Lundemo 32. The Old Place , Space of Legends Margaret C. Flinn 33. Notre Musique : Juste une conversation Erin Schlumpf 33. Jean-Luc Godard: To Liberate Things from the Name that we have Imposed on Them ( Film... ) To Announce Dissonances Parting from a Note in Common ( Socialisme ) Irmgard Emmelhainz