The Films of Jean-Luc Godard (Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video)
Released: Mar 13, 1997
Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
Format: Hardcover, 290 pages
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One of the most important, controversial, and prolific filmmakers in film history, and a founder of French New Wave cinema,Jean-Luc Godard has maintained an unbroken string of films in variousgenres and mediums from the late 1950s onward. Godard has established areputation as a rebel who can work within and outside the system,producing films that are creative, breathtakingly beautiful, and yetcommercial enough to earn back their production costs. In this book,Wheeler Winston Dixon offers an overview of all of Godard's work as afilmmaker, including his work for television and his ethnographic workin Africa. Free from the jargon and value judgments that have marredmuch of what has been written about Godard, this is the only book thatcovers the entirety of Godard's career, from his early film criticismfor Cahiers du Cinema to his more recent video/film work, illustrated with forty-six rare stills and researched in detail.
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