Jean-Luc Godard’s Political Filmmaking

Author:   Irmgard Emmelhainz
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2019
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9783319720944


Pages:   327
Publication Date:   08 May 2019
Format:   Hardback
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This book offers an examination of the political dimensions of a number of Jean-Luc Godard’s films from the 1960s to the present. The author seeks to dispel the myth that Godard’s work abandoned political questions after the 1970s and was limited to merely formal ones. The book includes a discussion of militant filmmaking and Godard’s little-known films from the Dziga Vertov Group period, which were made in collaboration with Jean-Pierre Gorin. The chapters present a thorough account of Godard’s investigations on the issue of aesthetic-political representation, including his controversial juxtaposition of the Shoah and the Nakba. Emmelhainz argues that the French director’s oeuvre highlights contradictions between aesthetics and politics in a quest for a dialectical image. By positing all of Godard’s work as experiments in dialectical materialist filmmaking, from Le Petit soldat (1963) to Adieu au langage (2014), the author brings attention to Godard’s ongoing inquiry on the role filmmakers can have in progressive political engagement.

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Author:   Irmgard Emmelhainz
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2019
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9783319720944


ISBN 10:   3319720945
Pages:   327
Publication Date:   08 May 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Who Speaks Here?: Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Militant Filmmaking’ (1967-1974).- 3. Elsewhere: Dialogue of Points of View: Jean-Luc Godard and Tiersmondisme .- 4. Technique and Montage: Saying, Seeing and Showing the Invisible .- 5. Representing the Unrepresentable: Restitution, Archive, Memory .- 6. Conditions of Visuality and Materialist Film at the Eve of the 21st Century.- 7. Conclusion.

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Irmgard Emmelhainz is an independent writer and scholar based in Mexico City. She is the author of The Tyranny of Common Sense: Mexico's Neoliberal Reconversion (2016; in Spanish) and The Sky is Incomplete: Travel Chronicles in Palestine (Forthcoming; in Spanish).

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