A Companion to Jean-Luc Godard (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors Book 6)

A Compendium Of Original Essays On A Wide Range Of Issues Relating To Godard's Cinematic Career. The Majority Of Essays Focus On The Major Films In Godard's Prolific Oeuvre, While Others Bring Insights Into The Director's Biography, Including Reflections On His Personal Philosophy, Politics, And Connections To Other Critics And Filmmakers. Introduction / Tom Conley And T. Jefferson Kline -- From Pen To Camera: Another Critic / Jean-michel Frodon -- À Bout De Souffle: Trials In New Coherences / Phillip John Usher -- Médicis 15-37: Bernardo Bertolucci Vs. Jean-luc Godard / Fabien S. Gérard -- Un Femme Est Infâme: Godard's Writing Lesson / Elizabeth Ezra -- Michel Legrand Scores Une Femme Est Une Femme / Kareem Roustom -- Three-way Mirroring In Vivre Sa Vie / Maureen Turim -- Commerce And The War Of The Sexes: Laetitia Masson And Jean-luc Godard / Martine Beugnet -- Les Carabiniers: Bb Guns At War And At The Movies / Gerald Peary -- A Postmodern Consideration Of Jean-luc Godard's Le Mépris / Emily Macaux -- Totally, Tenderly, Tragically--and In Color: Another Look At Godard's Le Mépris / Steven Ungar -- Le Mépris: Landscape As Tragedy / Ludovic Cortade -- Bande(s) à Part: Godard's Contraband Poetry / T. Jefferson Kline -- Pierrot Le Fou And A Legacy Of Forme / Tom Conley -- Godard's Wars / Philip Watts -- (dé)collage: Bazin, Godard, Aragon / Douglas Smith -- The Children Of Marx And Esso: Oil Companies And Cinematic Writing In 1960s Godard / Thomas Odde -- One Or Two Points About Two Or Three Things I Know About Her / Jacqueline Levitin -- Godard's Remote Control / John Hulsey -- La Chinoise--et Après?: Aging Against Tradition / Grace An -- Jean-luc, Community And Communication / Marc Cerisuelo -- On And Under Communication / Michael Witt -- Factories And The Factory / Amie Siegel -- Passion's Ghost / Murray Pomerance -- Schizoanalyzing Souls: Godard, Deleuze, And The Mystical Line Of Flight / David Sterritt -- Godard The Hegelian / Daniel Fairfax -- Godard's Ecotechnics / Verena Andermatt Conley -- Retrospective Godard / Elisabeth Hodges -- An Accurate Description Of What Has Never Occurred: History, Virtuality, And Fiction In Godard / Scott Durham -- Noli Me Tangere: Jean-luc Godard's Histoire(e)s Du Cinéma / Kriss Ravetto-biagioli -- Godard The Historiographer: From Histoires Du Cinéma To The Beaubourg Exhibition / Trond Lundemo -- The Old Place, Space Of Legends / Margaret C. Flinn -- Notre Musique: Juste Une Conversation / Erin Schlumpf -- 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) / Irmgard Emmelhainz. Edited By Tom Conley And T. Jefferson Kline. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover 1 Title page 5 Copyright page 6 Contents 7 Notes on Contributors 10 Introduction 17 1: From Pen to Camera: Another Critic 27 2: À bout de souffle: Trials in New Coherences 37 An Inaugural Moment 37 Characters in Search of a Film 40 Trials 44 Spaces and Places 48 The Soundtrack 50 Conclusions 51 Acknowledgments 53 3: “Médicis 15-37”: Bernardo Bertolucci vs. Jean-Luc Godard 60 4: Un Femme est infâme: Godard’s Writing Lesson 76 5: Michel Legrand Scores Une femme est une femme 87 Legrand – Godard’s Longest Musical Collaboration 88 The Musical Language of Legrand’s Score to Une femme est une femme 88 Legrand’s Score in Context of the Classical Hollywood Film Score 91 Time and Place 92 Underlining Psychological Refinements 93 Music as Neutral Background Filler 95 Building a Sense of Continuity 98 Underpinning the Theatrical Build-Up of a Scene, and Rounding It Off with a Sense of Finality 101 Conclusion 102 6: Three-Way Mirroring in Vivre sa vie 105 The Face – Sadness – Identification 105 Interiors and Exteriors – Structural Film 108 Brechtian Verfremdungseffekt – Story-telling – Theatre Vérité – Performance 110 Female Shop Clerks – Exchanges – Prostitution – Feminism 114 Biography – the Self and the World 121 7: Commerce and the War of the Sexes: Laetitia Masson and Jean-Luc Godard 124 Commerce 126 The Gaze and Reification 128 Essence and Difference 129 Normative Fantasies 131 8: Les Carabiniers: BB Guns at War and at the Movies 135 1 135 2 137 3 138 4 139 5 142 9: A Postmodern Consideration of Jean-Luc Godard’s Le Mépris 144 10: Totally, Tenderly, Tragically . . . and in Color: Another Look at Godard’s Le Mépris 159 11: Le Mépris: Landscapes as Tragedy 172 Godard Beyond National Identity: Malraux, Renoir, Bazin 176 Modernity of the Landscape 178 12: Bande(s) à part: Godard’s Contraband Poetry 187 13: Pierrot le fou and a Legacy of Forme 203 14: Godard’s Wars 213 15: (Dé)collage: Bazin, Godard, Aragon 226 Bazin and Godard: For and Against Realism 226 Godard and Aragon: Collage 228 Godard and Décollage 232 Bazin, Godard, and the Index 234 Conclusion 235 16: The Children of Marx and Esso: Oil Companies and Cinematic Writing in 1960s Godard 240 Deux ou trois choses que je sais de Shell 243 Le BP Soldat 244 Total Cinema 248 17: One or Two Points About Two or Three Things I Know About Her 259 Realism: Challenging the Codes of Documentary and Fiction 261 De Gaulle=USA 263 The Method 264 Alienation: The Emotional Portrait of a Society Under Capitalism 267 Film Time vs. Real Time 268 Sound 268 People vs. Objects 269 The Philosophical Position 270 Freedom 272 The Emotive Power of the Image in the Association of Ideas 273 Acknowledgment 274 18: Godard’s Remote Control 279 Acknowledgment 295 19: La Chinoise . . . et après?: Aging Against Tradition 298 Out of the Time Capsule, A Long Unfinished Film 301 Et après? A Time Machine Against Tradition 305 Acknowledgements 309 20: Jean-Luc, Community, and Communication 312 21: On and Under Communication 334 Sonimage 334 From the Dziga Vertov Group to Sonimage 335 Information Theory 338 Video 340 Under Television 342 On Television 1: Six fois deux (Sur et sous la communication) 345 On Television 2: France tour détour deux enfants 347 On Journalism 351 Other Communication Processes 353 22: Factories and the Factory 367 23: Passion’s Ghost 383 Histoire 386 Interiors 389 Painter’s prison 390 The torturer’s politique 392 Godard-Truffaut 393 Acknlowledgments 397 24: Schizoanalyzing Souls: Godard, Deleuze, and the Mystical Line of Flight 399 God/ard 401 . . . and . . . and . . . and . . . 403 A Euclidean Postulate 404 Sensation 406 Enter the Body Without Organs 407 Conceptual Personae 409 Sublimity 410 Into the Chaosmos 412 25: Godard the Hegelian 419 26: Godard’s Ecotechnics 436 27: Retrospective Godard 446 Divided Portraits 448 Framing Solitude 452 28: “An Accurate Description of What Has Never Occurred”: History, Virtuality, and Fiction in Godard 457 Stories of Cinema: Parodic Figures of the Dialectic 459 Post-Cinematic Fictions: The Archive and the Monad 464 29: Noli me tangere: Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(e)s du cinéma 472 Toutes les histoires or Une histoire seule 477 Does Reanimation Amount to Resurrection? 487 Acknowledgments 493 30: Godard the Historiographer: From Histoires du cinéma to the Beaubourg Exhibition 504 History and Archaeology 505 Periods 508 Superimpositions 511 The Unattainable Past 514 31: The Old Place, Space of Legends 520 Intertitles: Légendes at Play 521 A Resistant Text 522 Commercialism meets Semiotics 524 The Signature of Légendes 526 The Légende Comes Full Circle 527 32: Notre musique: Juste une conversation 530 Hell and Other People 533 Purgatory: One Must Imagine Godard Guilty 537 Paradise 541 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) 543 1 Socialism 545 2 Gold 546 3 Sensible Memory 547 4 Poetic Imaginary and Montage 549 5 Nos Humanités: Palestine 552 Index 562 Content: Notes on Contributors viii Introduction 1 Tom Conley and T. Jefferson Kline 1 From Pen to Camera: Another Critic 11 Jean-Michel Frodon 2 A bout de souffle: Trials in New Coherences 21 Phillip John Usher 3 "Medicis 15-37": Bernardo Bertolucci vs. Jean-Luc Godard 44 Fabien S. Gerard 4 Un Femme est infame: 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 Mepris 128 Emily Macaux 10 Totally, Tenderly, Tragically ... and in Color: Another Look at Godard's Le Mepris 143 Steven Ungar 11 Le Mepris: Landscapes as Tragedy 156 Ludovic Cortade 12 Bande(s) a 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 (De)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 apres?: 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 cinema 456 Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli 30 Godard the Historiographer: From Histoires du cinema 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 Introduction -- From Pen To Camera: Another Critic / Jean-michel Frodon -- A Bout De Souffle: Trials In New Coherences / Phillip John Usher -- Medicis 15-37: Bernardo Bertolucci Vs. Jean-luc Godard / Fabien Gerard -- Un Femme Est Infeme: Godard's Writing Lesson / Elizabeth Ezra -- Michel Legrand Scores Une Femme Est Une Femme / Kareem Roustom -- Three-way Mirroring In Vivre Sa Vie / Maureen Turim -- Commerce And The War Of The Sexes: Laetitia Masson And Jean-luc Godard / Martine Beugnet -- Les Carabiniers: Bb Guns At War And At The Movies / Gerald Peary -- A Postmodern Consideration Of Jean-luc Godard's Le Mépris / Emily Macaux -- Totally, Tenderly, Tragically ... And In Color: Another Look At Jlg?s Le Mépris / Steven Ungar -- Le Mépris: Landscape As Tragedy / Ludovic Cortade -- Bande(s) ¿ Part: Godard's Contraband Poetry / T. Jefferson Kline -- Pierrot Le Fou And A Legacy Of Forme / Tom Conley -- Godard's Wars / Philip Watts -- (d')collage: Bazin, Godard, Aragon / Douglas Smith -- The Children Of Marx And Esso: Oil Companies And Cinematic Writing In 1960s / Godard Thomas Odde -- One Or Two Points About Two Or Three Things I Know About Her / Jacqueline Levitin -- The Subject In The Age Of Radio-telecommunications: Godard's And His Actors In Deux Ou Trois Choses Que Je Sais D'elle / John Hulsey -- La Chinoise? Et Apres?: Aging Against Tradition / Grace An -- Community And Communication / Marc Cerisuelo -- On And Under Communication / Michael Witt -- Factories And The Factory / Amie Siegel -- Passion's Ghost / Murray Pomerance -- Schizoanalyzing Souls: Godard, Deleuze, And The Mystical Line Of Flight / David Sterritt -- Godard The Hegelian / Daniel Fairfax -- Jlg/jlg Verena / Andermatt Conley -- Retrospective Godard / Elisabeth Hodges -- An Accurate Description Of What Has Never Occurred: History, Virtuality, And Fiction In Godard / Scott Durham -- Noli Me Tangere: Jean-luc Godard's Histoire(e)s Du Cinema / Kriss Ravetto-biagioli -- Godard The Historiographer: From Histoires Du Cinema To The Beaubourg Exhibition / Trond Lundemo -- The Old Place, Space Of Legends / Margaret C. Flinn -- Notre Musique: Juste Une Conversation / Erin Schlumpf -- 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) / Irmgard Emmelhainz. Edited By Tom Conley And T. Jefferson Kline. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Hoboken, N.j. Available Via World Wide Web.

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

This compendium of original essays offers invaluable insights intothe life and works of one of the most important and influentialdirectors in the history of cinema, exploring his major films, philosophy, politics, and connections to other critics anddirectors. *Presents a compendium of original essays offering invaluableinsights into the life and works of one of the most important andinfluential filmmakers in the history of cinema; *Features contributions from an international cast of major filmtheorists and critics; *Provides readers with both an in-depth reading ofGodard s major films and a sense of his evolution from theNew Wave to his later political periods; *Brings fresh insights into the great director sbiography, including reflections on his personal philosophy, politics, and connections to other critics and filmmakers; *Explores many of the 80 features Godard made in nearly 60years, and includes coverage of his recent work in video