Cinema: The Archaeology of Film and the Memory of A Century (Talking Images Series)

An introduction and supplement to Godard's Les Histoire(s) du cinema: "Cinema is quite simply a unique book from one of the most influential film-makers in the history of cinema. Here, Jean-Luc Godard looks back on a century of film as well as his own work and career. Born with the twentieth century, cinema became not just the century's dominant art form but its best historian. Godard argues that - after Chaplin and Pol Pot, Monroe and Hitler, Stalin and Mae West, Mao and the Marx Brothers - film and history are inextricably intertwined. Godard presents his thoughts on film theory, cinematic technique, film histories, as well as the recent video revolution. He expounds on his central concerns - how film can "resurrect the past," the role of rhythm in film, and how cinema can be an "art that thinks." Here Godard comes closest to defining a lifetime's obsession with cinema and cinema's lifelong obsession with history." Cinema -- Constellation And Classification -- Angle And Montage -- The Urgency Of The Present/the Redemption Of The Past -- History And Re-memorization -- How Video Made The History Of Cinema Possible -- Only Cinema Can Narrate Its Own History: Quotation And Montage -- Histoire(s) Du Cinema: Films And Books -- History And Archeology -- The History Of Love, Of The Eye, And Of The Gaze -- Hitchcock And The Power Of Cinema -- The Loss Of The Magic Of Cinema And The Nouvelle Vague -- Before And After Auschwitz -- What Can Cinema Do? -- Only Cinema Narrates Large-scale History By Narrating Its Own History -- In Cinema As In Christianity: Image And Resurrection -- Image And Montage -- Towards The Stars -- Jean-luc Godard, Cineaste Of Modern Life: The Poetic In The Historical. Jean-luc Godard & Youssef Ishaghpour ; Translated By John Howe. First Published In Book Form, 2000, By Editions Farrago. -- T.p. Verso. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 142-143). Translated From The French. Born with the twentieth century, cinema became not just the century's dominant art form but its best historian. Godard argues that - after the century of Chaplin and Pol Pot, Monroe and Hitler, Stalin and Mae West, Mao and the Marx Brothers - film and history are inextricably intertwined Viewing your Histoire(s) du cinéma one is put in the same situation as you, with your project, the "plan" you thought unachievable but achieved nevertheless, as in that Brecht poem.