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Loading... Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventyby Colin MacCabe
   None No current Talk conversations about this book. I doubt a better book on Godard will be written as long as he's alive. (  ) Adammmmm | Sep 10, 2019 |  All narrative summaries of Godard's films are misleading because the films proceed by montage rather than story. JLG and partner/collaborator Anne-Marie Miéville This is a brilliant intellectual history of Godard and his milieu. This is less a cinematic/textual analysis of JLG's oeuvre than the Brody biography. I would thus recommend everyone read both. Here Godard's work is delineated alongside the major theoretical currents of the time the homage to Hitchcock/Hawks, the wary treading on Algeria, the dip to the Maoist left, the experiments with video, the rural turn, back to Switzerland. . I felt this work to be as equally moving as the Brody, though the focus is more on connective tissue rather the emperor-ly warts or nudity. It is difficult to articulate the bliss I have found in this project of reading four books on the auteur and spending dozens of hours watching and rewatching his films. This strikes me todays a necessary passage. I honestly can't imagine extending such effort to any other filmmaker. At least, not just yet. ( ) jonfaith | Feb 22, 2019 | Yes, I love this book that I just bought! ljk | May 18, 2012 | Great book. Mcabe' biography is extremely rich in detail.He provides a clever (yet necessarily succint ) analysis of his theories of film and artistic achievements: He writes about Bazin's influence on Godard, particularly his theory of the onthology of the film image, he main aspects of the New Wave and Godard's subsequent political and experimental films in a deceitfully simple and extremely entertaining prose. But what makes this book special is that McCabe puts Godar's life firmly in the context of his lifetime, offering in the process a very welcome sweep of the 20th century main historical events and artistic currents. Psychoanalisys, Lacan, Derrida, Lenin, Mao, May 68, all are described in the book in relation to their influence of Godard's life and work . McCabe is so thorough that he even gives a description of the prosecution of protestantism in France and their eventual grip on France cultural and political life in order to contextualise Godard's background. Highly recommended (  )1  alr234 | Jan 24, 2010 | no reviews | add a review
Jean-Luc Godard's early films revolutionised the language of cinema for everyone, from the superbrats of Hollywood to the political cinema of the Third World. Yet in 1968 he abandoned one of the most brilliant careers in French cinema to pursue his investigations into sound and image on the periphery of the industry he had rejected. Following a protected childhood in Switzerland in the Second World War, the postwar years saw Godard as a troubled adolescent in Paris, where the prescribed courses of the Sorbonne were ignored in favour of the extraordinary teaching of Andre Bazin, the greatest of film critics. In the pages of Cahiers du Cinema, Godard - together with Truffaut, Rohmer, Rivette and Chabrol - hammered out an aesthetic that would take the world by storm as the young critics swapped pens for cameras at the end of the 1950s to create the cinema of the nouvelle vague. Hugely prolific in his first ten years, Godard became and remains one of the most adventurous and enigmatic film-directors at work in the world today. No library descriptions found. |
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