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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      12 January 2010
      13 August 1999
      ISBN:
      9780511624322
      9780521580380
      9780521589710
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511624322
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.61kg, 314 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.44kg, 316 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Film, Film, Media, Mass Communication, Western Art
      Series:
      Cambridge Film Classics
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    Subjects:
    Film, Film, Media, Mass Communication, Western Art
    Series:
    Cambridge Film Classics
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    The Films of Jean-Luc Godard examines the work of one of the most versatile and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. With a career ranging from France's New Wave movement in the early 1960s to a period of political experimentation in the late 1960s and 70s, and, currently, a contemplative period in which Godard has explored issues of spirituality, sexuality, and the aesthetics of sound, image, and montage, the filmmaker's work defies easy categorization. In this study, David Sterritt offers an introductory overview of Godard's work as a filmmaker, critic, and video artist. In subsequent chapters, he traces Godard's visionary ideas through six of his key films, including Breathless, My Life to Live, Weekend, Numéro deux, Hail Mary, and Nouvelle Vague formats. Linking Godard's works to key social and cultural developments, The Films of Jean-Luc Godard explains their importance in modernist and postmodernist art of the last half century.

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    "...Sterritt's book provides just the guidance that a curious but less-than-full-time filmgoer will need in approaching this difficult, unpopular and absolutely essential body of work." The Nation

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