Godard and the Essay Film: A Form That Thinks

ISBN-13: 9780810137387 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 288 str.

Rick Warner

Opis

Offers a history and analysis of the essay film, one of the most significant forms of intellectual filmmaking since the end of World War II. Warner incisively reconsiders the defining traits and legacies of this still-evolving genre through a groundbreaking examination of the vast and formidable oeuvre of Jean-Luc Godard.

Spis treści

• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter One: Research in the Form of a Spectacle
• Chapter Two: A Critical Poetics of Citation
• Chapter Three: Refiguring the Couple: Love, Dialogue, and Gesture
• Chapter Four: To Show and Show Oneself Showing: Essayistic Self-Portrayal
• Coda
• Stereoscopic Essays for the New Century
• Notes
• Index