Emmelhainz Jean-Luc Godard’s Political Filmmaking

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-319-72095-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 327 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This book offers an examination of the political dimensions of a number of Jean-Luc Godard’s films from the 1960s to the present. The author seeks to dispel the myth that Godard’s work abandoned political questions after the 1970s and was limited to merely formal ones. The book includes a discussion of militant filmmaking and Godard’s little-known films from the Dziga Vertov Group period, which were made in collaboration with Jean-Pierre Gorin. The chapters present a thorough account of Godard’s investigations on the issue of aesthetic-political representation, including his controversial juxtaposition of the Shoah and the Nakba. Emmelhainz argues that the French director’s
oeuvre
highlights contradictions between aesthetics and politics in a quest for a dialectical image. By positing all of Godard’s work as experiments in dialectical materialist filmmaking, from
Le Petit soldat
(1963) to
Adieu au langage
(2014), the author brings attention to Godard’s ongoing inquiry on the role filmmakers can have in progressive political engagement.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Emmelhainz, Irmgard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Who Speaks
Here
?: Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Militant Filmmaking’ (1967-1974).- 3. 
Elsewhere
: Dialogue of Points of View: Jean-Luc Godard and Tiersmondisme .- 4. Technique and Montage: Saying, Seeing and Showing the Invisible .- 5. Representing the Unrepresentable: Restitution, Archive, Memory .- 6. Conditions of Visuality and Materialist Film at the Eve of the 21
st
Century.- 7. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Irmgard Emmelhainz
 is an independent writer and scholar based in Mexico City. She is the author of
The Tyranny of Common Sense: Mexico's Neoliberal Reconversion
(2016; in Spanish) and
The Sky is Incomplete: Travel Chronicles in Palestine
(Forthcoming; in Spanish).