Jean-Luc Godard’s Political Filmmaking
Title | Jean-Luc Godard’s Political Filmmaking PDF eBook |
Author | Irmgard Emmelhainz |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2019-04-26 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 3319720953 |
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.
Jean-Luc Godard’s Political Filmmaking
Title | Jean-Luc Godard’s Political Filmmaking PDF eBook |
Author | Irmgard Emmelhainz |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019-05-08 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9783319720944 |
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.
Godard
Title | Godard PDF eBook |
Author | Colin MacCabe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
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This book provides an account of Godard's politic activities of the 60's until 80's and analyses how his politics affect his cinema with the addition of Laura Mulvey's in depth account of the feminist aspect of Godard's cinema.
Everything Is Cinema
Title | Everything Is Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Brody |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 732 |
Release | 2008-05-13 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780805068863 |
"When Jean-Luc Godard, exemplary director of the French New Wave, wed the ideals of filmmaking to the realities of autobiography and current events, he changed the nature of cinema. Among the greatest cinematic innovations, Godard's films shift fluidly from fiction to documentary, from criticism to art. Similarly, his persona projects shifting images - cultural hero, impassioned loner, shrewd businessman. Hailed by filmmakers as a - if not the - key influence, Godard has entered the modern canon, a figure as mysterious as he is indispensable." "In Everything is Cinema, critic Richard Brody has amassed hundreds of interviews with friends, family, and collaborators to demystify the elusive director and paint the fullest picture yet of his life and work. Paying as much attention to Godard's revolutionary technical inventions as to the political and emotional forces of the postwar world, Brody traces an arc from the director's early critical writing, through his popular success with Breathless and Contempt, to the grand vision of his later years. He vividly depicts Godard's wealthy, conservative family, his fluid and often disturbing politics, his tumultuous dealings with fellow filmmakers, and his troubled relations with women."--Jacket.
A Companion to Jean-Luc Godard
Title | A Companion to Jean-Luc Godard PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Conley |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 597 |
Release | 2014-04-17 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1118587014 |
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 cinema Features contributions from an international cast of major film theorists and critics Provides readers with both an in-depth reading of Godard’s major films and a sense of his evolution from the New Wave to his later political periods Brings fresh insights into the great director’s biography, including reflections on his personal philosophy, politics, and connections to other critics and filmmakers Explores many of the 80 features Godard made in nearly 60 years, and includes coverage of his recent work in video
Jean-Luc Godard
Title | Jean-Luc Godard PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Robinson |
Publisher | Crescent Moon Pub |
Pages | 449 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9781861712271 |
JEAN-LUC GODARD There s no one else quite like Jean-Luc Godard. You could take a few frames from one of his films and know they were by the maestro and nobody else. Where the flood of movies globally now runs into many thousands, Godard s works stand out as original, acerbic, romantic, ironic, humorous and explorative. EXTRACT FROM CHAPTER 2: GODARD BIOGRAPHY With A Bout du Souffle, Godard produced one of the first, great French New Wave movies, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, and written by, among others, Francois Truffaut. A Bout du Souffle, with its cool Parisian milieu, its filmic and film noir allusions, handheld camera, direct sound, startling editing and stylish, self-conscious performances from Belmondo and Seberg, established Godard as one of the major voices of postwar cinema, a reputation which Godard built on in subsequent early films such as Le Petit Soldat (1960), Une Femme Est Une Femme (1961), Vivre Sa Vie (1962), Le Mepris (1963), Bande a Part (1964), and Une Femme Mariee (1964). In these films of the early to mid-1960s, Godard established a radical, polemical series of films as film-essays which confronted issues such as late consumer capitalism, prostitution, labour, politics, ideology, gender, marriage, music, popular culture, Hollywood and not forgetting cinema itself. In the mid-1960s, Godard s films became increasingly political - the sci-fi film Alphaville (1965), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Made in U.S.A (1966), Masculine/ Feminin (1966), 2 ou 3 Choses Que Je Sais (1966) until, by 1967-68, the Marxist and Maoist influences permeated Godard s films: Weekend (1967), La Chinoise (1967), La Gai Savoir (1968), and One Plus One (Sympathy For the Devil, 1968). His concern was not to make political films, but to make films politically (my emphasis). In the 1970s, Godard moved into video and television territory, and worked with Anne-Marie Mieville on many projects: Ici Et Ailleurs (1974), Numero Deux (1975), Comment Ca Va (1976), Six Fois Deux/ Sur Et Sous La Communication (1976), and France/ Tour/ Detour/ Deux/ Enfants (1977-78). In the late 1970s, Godard made a return to feature filmmaking, with the sublime trilogy, Sauve Qui Peut (a.k.a. Every Man For Himself and Slow Motion, 1979), Passion (1982), and Prenom: Carmen (1983). Easily his most controversial film, Je Vous Salue Marie (Hail Mary), appeared in 1985; it was followed by Detective (1985), made to help finance the completion of Hail Mary, King Lear (1987), which starred Peter Sellars, Burgess Meredith, Molly Ringwald, Norman Mailer and Woody Allen, Nouvelle Vague (1990), Helas Pour Moi (1993), For Ever Mozart (1997), Eloge de l Amour (In Praise of Love, 2000) and Notre Musique (2005). Fully illustrated. Bibliography and notes. "
The Films of Jean-Luc Godard
Title | The Films of Jean-Luc Godard PDF eBook |
Author | David Sterritt |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 1999-08-13 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780521589710 |
The Films of Jean-Luc Godard examines the work of one of the most versatile and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. With a career ranging from France's New Wave movement in the early 1960s to a period of political experimentation in the late 1960s and 70s, and, currently, a contemplative period in which Godard has explored issues of spirituality, sexuality, and the aesthetics of sound, image, and montage, the filmmaker's work defies easy categorization. In this study, David Sterritt offers an introductory overview of Godard's work as a filmmaker, critic, and video artist. In subsequent chapters, he traces Godard's visionary ideas through six of his key films, including Breathless, My Life to Live, Weekend, Numéro deux, Hail Mary, and Nouvelle Vague formats. Linking Godard's works to key social and cultural developments, The Films of Jean-Luc Godard explains their importance in modernist and postmodernist art of the last half century.