Companion to Jean-Luc Godard (eBook)

Tom Conley, T. Jefferson Kline (Autoren)

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2014 | 1. Auflage
576 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-118-58699-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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

Autor

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.

Inhalt

Notes on Contributors viii

Introduction 1

Tom Conley and T. Jefferson Kline

1 From Pen to Camera: Another Critic 11

Jean-Michel Frodon

2 À bout de souffle: Trials in New Coherences 21

Phillip John Usher

3 "Médicis 15-37": Bernardo Bertolucci vs.
Jean-Luc Godard 44

Fabien S. Gérard

4 Un Femme est infâme: Godard's Writing Lesson
60

Elizabeth Ezra

5 Michel Legrand Scores Une femme est une femme 71

Kareem Roustom

6 Three-Way Mirroring in Vivre sa vie 89

Maureen Turim

7 Commerce and the War of the Sexes: Laetitia Masson and
Jean-Luc Godard 108

Martine Beugnet

8 Les Carabiniers: BB Guns at War and at the Movies 119

Gerald Peary

9 A Postmodern Consideration of Jean-Luc Godard's Le
Mépris 128

Emily Macaux

10 Totally, Tenderly, Tragically . . . and in Color: Another
Look at Godard's Le Mépris 143

Steven Ungar

11 Le Mépris: Landscapes as Tragedy 156

Ludovic Cortade

12 Bande(s) à part: Godard's Contraband Poetry
171

T. Jefferson Kline

13 Pierrot le fou and a Legacy of Forme 187

Tom Conley

14 Godard's Wars 197

Philip Watts

15 (Dé)collage: Bazin, Godard, Aragon 210

Douglas Smith

16 The Children of Marx and Esso: Oil Companies and Cinematic
Writing in 1960s Godard 224

Thomas Odde

17 One or Two Points About Two or Three Things I Know About Her
243

Jacqueline Levitin

18 Godard's Remote Control 263

John Hulsey

19 La Chinoise ... et après?: Aging Against Tradition
282

Grace An

20 Jean-Luc, Community, and Communication 296

Marc Cerisuelo

21 On and Under Communication 318

Michael Witt

22 Factories and the Factory 351

Amie Siegel

23 Passion's Ghost 367

Murray Pomerance

24 Schizoanalyzing Souls: Godard, Deleuze, and the Mystical Line
of Flight 383

David Sterritt

25 Godard the Hegelian 403

Daniel Fairfax

26 Godard's Ecotechnics 420

Verena Andermatt Conley

27 Retrospective Godard 430

Elisabeth Hodges

28 "An Accurate Description of What Has Never
Occurred": History, Virtuality, and Fiction in Godard
441

Scott Durham

29 Noli me tangere: Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(e)s du
cinéma 456

Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli

30 Godard the Historiographer: From Histoires du cinéma to
the Beaubourg Exhibition 488

Trond Lundemo

31 The Old Place, Space of Legends 504

Margaret C. Flinn

32 Notre musique: Juste une conversation 514

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) 527

Irmgard Emmelhainz

Index 546

Rezensionen

"Jean-Luc Godard not only reinvented the cinema; he also
challenged film viewers to become engaged cinephiles, whether in
terms of politics, theory, gender, or the history of film
itself. Godard's work is and has always been
provocative, and that it has remained so since the beginnings of
the New Wave attests to the magnitude of the director's
achievement. Tom Conley and T. Jefferson Kline have assembled
a remarkable collection, representing a wide range of perspectives
on Godard's achievement. The book is a must-read for
anyone who has ever been entranced or frustrated, fascinated
or enraged with Godard's cinematic imagination."

Judith Mayne, Ohio State University

"In generating this superb and intellectually diverse collection
of original essays, the editors have accomplished the crucial work
of critics, which is to demonstrate the vast range and immense
depth of a great artist's work."

Ted Perry, Middlebury College

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.4.2014
• Reihe/Serie: WBCF - Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
• Reihe/Serie: WBCF - Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Cultural Studies • Filmforschung • Film Studies • Filmtheorie • Film theory • Geschichte des Filmtheaters • Godard, Jean L. • History of Cinema • Kulturwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 1-118-58699-9 / 1118586999
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-58699-0 / 9781118586990