Speaking About Godard

Probably The Most Prominent Living Filmmaker, And One Of The Foremost Directors Of The Postwar Era, Jean Luc-godard Has Received Astonishingly Little Critical Attention In The United States. With Speaking About Godard, Leading Film Theorist Kaja Silverman And Filmmaker Harun Farocki Have Made One Of The Most Significant Contributions To Film Studies In Recent Memory: A Lively Set Of Conversations About Godard And His Major Films, From Contempt To Passion. Combining The Insights Of A Feminist Film Theorist With Those Of An Avant-garde Filmmaker, These Eight Dialogueseach Representing A Different Period Of Godards Film Production, And Together Spanning His Entire Careerget At The Very Heart Of His Formal And Theoretical Innovations, Teasing Out, With Probity And Grace, The Ways In Which Image And Text Inform One Another Throughout Godards Oeuvre.