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A companion to Jean-Luc Godard / edited by Tom Conley and T. Jefferson Kline.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors ; 10. | EBL ebooks onlinePublisher: Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781118586990 (Adobe PDF)
  • 1118586999 (Adobe PDF)
  • 9781118587010 (ePub)
  • 1118587014 (ePub)
  • 9781118586815
  • 1118586816
  • 1306685338
  • 9781306685337
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Companion to Jean-Luc GodardDDC classification:
  • 791.4302/33092 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1998.3.G63
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- From pen to camera: another critic / Jean-Michel Frodon -- A bout de souffle: trials in new coherences / Phillip John Usher -- "Medicis 15-37": Bernardo Bertolucci vs. Jean-Luc Godard / Fabien Gerard -- Un femme est infeme: Godard's writing lesson / Elizabeth Ezra -- Michel Legrand scores une femme est une femme / Kareem Roustom -- Three-way mirroring in Vivre sa vie / Maureen Turim -- Commerce and the war of the sexes: Laetitia Masson and Jean-Luc Godard / Martine Beugnet -- Les carabiniers: bb guns at war and at the movies / Gerald Peary -- A postmodern consideration of Jean-Luc Godard's Le mépris / Emily Macaux -- Totally, tenderly, tragically . . . and in color: another look at jlg?s le mépris / Steven Ungar -- Le mépris: landscape as tragedy / Ludovic Cortade -- Bande(s) ¿ part: Godard's Contraband poetry / T. Jefferson Kline -- Pierrot le fou and a legacy of forme / Tom Conley -- Godard's wars / Philip Watts -- (D')collage: Bazin, Godard, Aragon / Douglas Smith -- The children of Marx and Esso: oil companies and cinematic writing in 1960s / Godard Thomas Odde -- One or two points about Two or three things I know about her / Jacqueline Levitin -- 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 -- La chinoise? et apres?: aging against tradition / Grace An -- Community and communication / Marc Cerisuelo -- On and under communication / Michael Witt -- Factories and the factory / Amie Siegel -- Passion's ghost / Murray Pomerance -- Schizoanalyzing souls: Godard, Deleuze, and the mystical line of flight / David Sterritt -- Godard the Hegelian / Daniel Fairfax -- Jlg/jlg Verena / Andermatt Conley -- Retrospective Godard / Elisabeth Hodges -- An accurate description of what has never occurred: history, virtuality, and fiction in Godard / Scott Durham -- Noli me tangere: Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(e)s du cinema / Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli -- Godard the historiographer: from histoires du cinema to the Beaubourg Exhibition / Trond Lundemo -- The old place, space of legends / Margaret C. Flinn -- Notre musique: juste une conversation / Erin Schlumpf -- 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.
Summary: 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 cinemaFeatures contributions from an international cast of major film theorists and criticsProvides readers with both an in-depth reading of Godard's major films and a s.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- From pen to camera: another critic / Jean-Michel Frodon -- A bout de souffle: trials in new coherences / Phillip John Usher -- "Medicis 15-37": Bernardo Bertolucci vs. Jean-Luc Godard / Fabien Gerard -- Un femme est infeme: Godard's writing lesson / Elizabeth Ezra -- Michel Legrand scores une femme est une femme / Kareem Roustom -- Three-way mirroring in Vivre sa vie / Maureen Turim -- Commerce and the war of the sexes: Laetitia Masson and Jean-Luc Godard / Martine Beugnet -- Les carabiniers: bb guns at war and at the movies / Gerald Peary -- A postmodern consideration of Jean-Luc Godard's Le mépris / Emily Macaux -- Totally, tenderly, tragically . . . and in color: another look at jlg?s le mépris / Steven Ungar -- Le mépris: landscape as tragedy / Ludovic Cortade -- Bande(s) ¿ part: Godard's Contraband poetry / T. Jefferson Kline -- Pierrot le fou and a legacy of forme / Tom Conley -- Godard's wars / Philip Watts -- (D')collage: Bazin, Godard, Aragon / Douglas Smith -- The children of Marx and Esso: oil companies and cinematic writing in 1960s / Godard Thomas Odde -- One or two points about Two or three things I know about her / Jacqueline Levitin -- 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 -- La chinoise? et apres?: aging against tradition / Grace An -- Community and communication / Marc Cerisuelo -- On and under communication / Michael Witt -- Factories and the factory / Amie Siegel -- Passion's ghost / Murray Pomerance -- Schizoanalyzing souls: Godard, Deleuze, and the mystical line of flight / David Sterritt -- Godard the Hegelian / Daniel Fairfax -- Jlg/jlg Verena / Andermatt Conley -- Retrospective Godard / Elisabeth Hodges -- An accurate description of what has never occurred: history, virtuality, and fiction in Godard / Scott Durham -- Noli me tangere: Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(e)s du cinema / Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli -- Godard the historiographer: from histoires du cinema to the Beaubourg Exhibition / Trond Lundemo -- The old place, space of legends / Margaret C. Flinn -- Notre musique: juste une conversation / Erin Schlumpf -- 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.

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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 cinemaFeatures contributions from an international cast of major film theorists and criticsProvides readers with both an in-depth reading of Godard's major films and a s.

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