Introduction to a True History of Cinema and Television

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-9811914-2-3
Verlag: Caboose

Buch, Englisch, 558 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 229 mm

In 1978, just before his return to the international stage, the world’s most renowned art-film director, Jean-Luc Godard, improvised a series of fourteen one-hour talks at Concordia University in Montreal. These talks, part of a projected video history of cinema, were published in French in 1980. In this definitive English-language volume, translator Timothy Barnard has worked from the original footage to carefully revise and correct the faulty French transcription. The result is the most extensive and revealing account of Godard’s own work, his methods, and his critical opinions. Never has Godard been as loquacious, lucid, and disarmingly frank as he is here. This volume, by the wittiest and most idiosyncratic genius cinema has known and available for the first time in English, is certain to become one of the great classics of film literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Godard, Jean-Luc

Weitere Mitwirkende

Barnard, Timothy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Einzelne Filmschauspieler, Filmregisseure, Drehbuchautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmproduktion, Filmtechnik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Fernsehen & Rundfunk

Über Autor(innen)

Jean-Luc Godard is a pioneer of the French new wave. His effect on modern cinema is incalculable. He was a director and a critic for Cahiers du cinéma, and his numerous films include Breathless, A Woman Is a Woman, Contempt, Band of Outsiders, Masculin féminin, Pierrot le fou, and Tout va bien. Today, Godard remains our greatest lyricist on historical trauma, religion, and the legacy of cinema.

Timothy Barnard is a translator and publisher. He is the founder of caboose, an independent publisher of books about film located in Montreal, Canada. 

Michael Witt is a professor of cinema at the University of Roehampton in London. He is the author of Jean-Luc Goddard: Cinema Historian and coeditor of many books on French film, including Jean-Luc Godard: Documents, The French Cinema Book, and For Ever Godard.