Jean-luc Godard

by Morrey, Douglas

• ISBN13: 9780719067594
• ISBN10: 0719067596
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-07-28
• Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Summary

This volume offers a new interpretation of the whole of Godard's career in cinema and by drawing examples from all periods of Godard's filmmaking, it examines the parallels between the director's innovative approach to film form and wider developments in French culture and thought since 1950.

Author Biography

Douglas Morrey is Lecturer in French at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Table of Contents

List of Plates	viii
SERIES EDITORS' FOREWORD	ix
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS	xi
1 Necessity or contingency: Godard as film critic, 1950-59	1	(7)
2 Scenes from domestic life: 1960-65	8	(23)
3 Outside: 1960-62	31	(16)
4 End of the beginning/beginning of the end: 1966-67	47	(37)
5 Schooling: 1968-72	84	(22)
6 Home movies: 1974-78	106	(26)
7 Love and work: 1979-84	132	(33)
8 Smiling with regret: 1984-90	165	(31)
9 The sense of an ending: 1991-96	196	(23)
10 Old man river: 1998-	219	(23)
CONCLUSION	242	(2)
FILMOGRAPHY	244	(19)
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY	263	(2)
INDEX	265