Jean-luc Godard - Douglas Morrey

This Volume Offers A Interpretation Of One Of The Most Innovative Directors In The History Of Cinema. It Is The First Book To Cover The Whole Of Godards Career, From The French Wave To The Recent Triumphs Of Histoire(s) Du Cinma And Eloge De Lamour. Drawing On A Wide Range Of Literary, Filmic And Philiosophical Texts, The Book Places Godards Work Within Its Intellectual Context, Examining How Developments In French Culture And Thought Since 1950 Have Been Mirrored In - And Sometimes Anticipated By - Godards Films.numerous Sequences From Godards Films Are Singled Out For Close Analysis, Demonstrating How The Directors Radical Approaches To Narrative, Editing, Sound And Shot Composition Have Made The Cinema Into An Analytical Tool In Its Own Right.the Book Will Be Essential To All Students Of Godards Films, And Of Interest To Scholars Of Modern And Contemporary French Cinema, Culture And Thought.