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
Daftar Isi
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 Lesson
60
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 and
Jean-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 Le
Mépris 128
Emily Macaux
10 Totally, Tenderly, Tragically . . . and in Color: Another
Look 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 Poetry
171
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 Cinematic
Writing in 1960s Godard 224
Thomas Odde
17 One or Two Points About Two or Three Things I Know About Her
243
Jacqueline Levitin
18 Godard’s Remote Control 263
John Hulsey
19 La Chinoise … et après?: Aging Against Tradition
282
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 Line
of 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 Never
Occurred’: History, Virtuality, and Fiction in Godard
441
Scott Durham
29 Noli me tangere: Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(e)s du
cinéma 456
Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli
30 Godard the Historiographer: From Histoires du cinéma to
the 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 We
Have Imposed on Them (Film . . .) to Announce Dissonances Parting
from a Note in Common (Socialisme) 527
Irmgard Emmelhainz
Index 546
Tentang Penulis
Tom Conley is Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Romance
Languages and Visual & Environmental Studies at Harvard
University. His publications include Film Hieroglyphs
(2006), Cartographic Cinema (2007), An Errant Eye
(2011), and others.
T. Jefferson Kline is Professor of French at Boston
University. His publications include Bertolucci’s Dream
Loom (1987), Screening the Text: Intertextuality and New
Wave French Cinema (1992), Unraveling French Cinema
(2010), and a variety of essays on French and European literature
and film.
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