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Author:   James S. Williams
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.590kg
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9781438460628

ISBN 10:   1438460627
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   02 January 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Illustrations Credits Acknowledgments Introduction: Encountering Godard 1. The Politics of Violence and the End(s) of Art: Speaking (for) the Other in La Chinoise (1967) 2. The Signs in Our Midst: European Culture and Artistic Resistance in Histoire(s) du cinema (1988--98) 3. Beyond the Cinematic Body: Digital Rhythms and In/human Breakdown 4. Silence, Gesture, Revelation: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Montage in Godard and Agamben 5. Music, Love, and the Cinematic Event 6. Crossing the Darkness: Metaphor, Difference, Dissymmetry in Notre Musique(2004) 7. Entering the Desert: Giving Face in Film socialisme (2010) 8. Soft and Hard/Back to Back: Erotic Encounters between Voice and Image in the Zone Coda: Cinema after Language Notes Works Cited Select Filmography/Discography Index

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"""A landmark contribution to our understanding of Godard and of modernist expression as a whole."" - David Sterritt, author of The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: Seeing the Invisible ""Writing with a delirious lucidity, Williams opens Godard to debate and dialogue that informs, extends, opens, and illuminates what may be the greatest and most complex body of cinema of the last half-century."" - Tom Conley, author of Film Hieroglyphs: Ruptures in Classical Cinema"

A landmark contribution to our understanding of Godard and of modernist expression as a whole. - David Sterritt, author of The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: Seeing the Invisible Writing with a delirious lucidity, Williams opens Godard to debate and dialogue that informs, extends, opens, and illuminates what may be the greatest and most complex body of cinema of the last half-century. - Tom Conley, author of Film Hieroglyphs: Ruptures in Classical Cinema

Author Information

James S. Williams is Professor of Modern French Literature and Film at Royal Holloway, University of London. His books include Space and Being in Contemporary French Cinema; Gender and French Cinema (coedited with Alex Hughes); and The Erotics of Passage: Pleasure, Politics, and Form in the Later Work of Marguerite Duras.

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