Conley / Kline A Companion to Jean-Luc Godard

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-58699-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 576 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: WBCF - Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors

This compendium of original essays offers invaluable insights intothe life and works of one of the most important and influentialdirectors in the history of cinema, exploring his major films,philosophy, politics, and connections to other critics anddirectors.
* Presents a compendium of original essays offering invaluableinsights into the life and works of one of the most important andinfluential filmmakers in the history of cinema
* Features contributions from an international cast of major filmtheorists and critics
* Provides readers with both an in-depth reading ofGodard's major films and a sense of his evolution from theNew Wave to his later political periods
* Brings fresh insights into the great director'sbiography, including reflections on his personal philosophy,politics, and connections to other critics and filmmakers
* Explores many of the 80 features Godard made in nearly 60years, and includes coverage of his recent work in video

Autoren/Hrsg.

Conley, Tom

Kline, T. Jefferson

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Lesson60
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 andJean-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 LeMépris 128
Emily Macaux
10 Totally, Tenderly, Tragically . . . and in Color: AnotherLook 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 Poetry171
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 CinematicWriting in 1960s Godard 224
Thomas Odde
17 One or Two Points About Two or Three Things I Know About Her243
Jacqueline Levitin
18 Godard's Remote Control 263
John Hulsey
19 La Chinoise ... et après?: Aging Against Tradition282
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 Lineof 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 NeverOccurred": History, Virtuality, and Fiction in Godard441
Scott Durham
29 Noli me tangere: Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(e)s ducinéma 456
Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli
30 Godard the Historiographer: From Histoires du cinéma tothe 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 WeHave Imposed on Them (Film . . .) to Announce Dissonances Partingfrom a Note in Common (Socialisme) 527
Irmgard Emmelhainz
Index 546

Über Autor(innen)

Tom Conley is Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of RomanceLanguages and Visual & Environmental Studies at HarvardUniversity. His publications include Film Hieroglyphs(2006), Cartographic Cinema (2007), An Errant Eye(2011), and others.
T. Jefferson Kline is Professor of French at BostonUniversity. His publications include Bertolucci's DreamLoom (1987), Screening the Text: Intertextuality and NewWave French Cinema (1992), Unraveling French Cinema(2010), and a variety of essays on French and European literatureand film.