Includes bibliographical references, discography, filmography and index.
Contents:
Introduction: encountering Godard -- The politics of violence and the end(s) of art: speaking (for) the other in La Chinoise (1967) -- The signs in our midst: European culture and artistic resistance in Histoire(s) du cinema (1988-98) -- Beyond the cinematic body: digital rhythms and in/human breakdown -- Silence, gesture, revelation: the ethics and aesthetics of montage in Godard and Agamben -- Music, love, and the cinematic event -- Crossing the darkness: metaphor, difference, dissymmetry in Notre Musique (2004) -- Entering the desert: giving face in Film socialisme (2010) -- Soft and hard/back to back: erotic encounters between voice and image in the zone -- Coda: cinema after language.
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