Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le Fou
Jean-Luc Godard's <I>Pierrot le Fou</I>
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USDJean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le fou (1965), made at the height of the French New Wave, remains a milestone in French cinema. More accessible than his later films, it represents the diverse facets of Godard's concerns and themes: a bittersweet analysis of male-female relations; an interrogation of the image; personal and international politics; the existential dilemmas of consumer society. This volume brings together essays by five prominent scholars of French film. They approach Pierrot le fou from the perspectives of image-and-word-play, aesthetics and politics, history, and high- and popular culture. A full filmography and a selection of reviews are included.
- The first French and first New Wave film represented in the Film Handbooks series
- Filmography and black and white stills
- Importance of the film to debates concerning popular culture and the technologization/digitalization of the image
Product details
April 2000Paperback
9780521574891
208 pages
229 × 152 × 12 mm
0.31kg
18 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction: oui, bien sûr … oui bien sûr David Wills
- 1. The imaginary element: life + cinema Richard Dienst
- 2. Pierrot in context(s) Alan Williams
- 3. Godard's tricolor Jean-Louis Leutrat
- 4. Language gone mad Tom Conley
- 5. Pierrot le fou and post-new wave French cinema Jill Forbes.
