For Ever Godard : The Work of Jean-Luc Godard 1950 to the Present

by Williams, James

• ISBN13: 9781901033694
• ISBN10: 1901033694
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Black Dog Pub Ltd

Summary

With 22 illustrated chapters, as well as a photo essay and a visual filmography, For Ever Godard aims to do critical justice to the full sweep of Godard's artistic interests and preoccupations. The volume presents material by scholars and practitioners from film and media studies, art history, musicology, philosophy and aesthetics, museum studies, French studies, European history, cultural studies, and feminism and gender studies.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. 8
For Ever Divided	p. 11
Introduction	p. 14
Illustrated Filmography	p. 18
Work and Works
The Godard Paradox	p. 68
Godard and Asynchrony	p. 72
The Commerce of Cinema	p. 94
Home-Movies: The Curious Cinematic Collaboration of Anne-Marie Mieville and Jean-Luc Godard	p. 100
Godard in the Museum	p. 118
Here and Elsewhere: Projecting Godard	p. 126
Form and Figure
A Cinema of Memory in the Future Tense: Godard, Trailers, and Godard Trailers	p. 144
The Forms of the Question	p. 160
Procession and Projection: Notes on a Figure in the Work of Jean-Luc Godard	p. 178
"Gravity and Grace": On the "Sacred" and Cinematic Vision in the Films of Jean-Luc Godard	p. 188
Altered Motion and Corporal Resistance in France/Tour/Detour/Deux/Enfants	p. 200
Godard, Hitchcock, and the Cinematographic Image	p. 214
The Written Screen: JLG and Writing as the Accursed Share	p. 232
Sound and Music
Recital: Three Lyrical Interludes in Godard	p. 252
JLG/ECM	p. 272
Music, Love, and the Cinematic Event	p. 288
"Sa Voix"	p. 312
History and Memory
Godard's Two Historiographies	p. 334
The (Im)possible History	p. 350
Anamnesis and Bearing Witness: Godard/Lanzmann	p. 364
The Index and Erasure: Godard's Approach to Film History	p. 380
"A Form That Thinks": Godard, Blanchot, Citation	p. 396
Notes	p. 416
Selective Bibliography	p. 438
Picture Credits	p. 444
Index	p. 454
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