The Films of Jean-Luc Godard (Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video)
Editorial Reviews
London Review of Books, September 17, 1998
Wheeler Winston Dixon's new book presents a macroscopic view of Godard's career to date, covering every film or video he has ever made. It is divided into five chapters, which correspond more or less to the five film-making periods of MacCabe's biographical schema, except that he divides the New Wave into two at Le Mepris, an elegy for a decayed studio system (incarnated in Fritz Lang) which he sees as marking an irreversible disenchantment with the industry, portraying Prokosch, the producer (played by Jack Palance) as 'simultaneously ruthless, vain, childish, arrogant, stupid, greedy, self-deluding'.
Book Description
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 various genres and mediums from the late 1950s onward. Godard has established a reputation as a rebel who can work within and outside the system, producing films that are creative, breathtakingly beautiful, and yet commercial enough to earn back their production costs. In this book, Wheeler Winston Dixon offers an overview of all of Godard's work as a filmmaker, including his work for television and his ethnographic work in Africa. Free from the jargon and value judgments that have marred much of what has been written about Godard, this is the only book that covers the entirety of Godard's career, from his early film criticism for Cahiers du Cinema to his most recent video/film work. Illustrated with forty-six rare stills and researched in detail, it is the Godard book for the 1990s.
The Films of Jean-Luc Godard (Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video)
The Films of Jean-Luc Godard (Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video),Wheeler Winston Dixon,State University of New York Press,0791432866,1930-,Cinema/Film: Book,Criticism and interpretation,Film & Video - Direction & Production,Film & Video - History & Criticism,Godard, Jean Luc,,Pop Arts / Pop Culture
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