Pierrot le fou and a legacy of forme / T. Jefferson Kline -- From pen to camera: another critic / Jean-Michel Frodon -- À bout de souffle: trials in new coherences / Phillip John Usher -- "Médicis 15-37": Bernardo Bertolucci vs. Jean-Luc Godard / Fabien S. Gérard -- Un femme est infâme: 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 Godard's Le mépris / Steven Ungar -- Le mépris: landscape as tragedy / Ludovic Cortade -- Bande(s) à part: Godard's Contraband poetry / T. Jefferson Kline -- Pierrot le fou and a legacy of forme / Scott Durham -- "An accurate description of what has never occurred": history, virtuality, and fiction in Godard / Philip Watts -- (Dé)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 -- Godard's remote control / John Hulsey -- La chinoise--et après?: aging against tradition / Grace An -- Jean-Luc, 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 -- Godard's ecotechnics / Verena Andermatt Conley -- Retrospective Godard / Elisabeth Hodges -- "An accurate description of what has never occurred": history, virtuality, and fiction in Godard / Scott Durham -- 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. Godard the historiographer: from Histoires du cinéma 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:
A compendium of original essays on a wide range of issues relating to Godard's cinematic career. The majority of essays focus on the major films in Godard's prolific oeuvre, while others bring insights into the director's biography, including reflections on his personal philosophy, politics, and connections to other critics and filmmakers.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.