Williams Encounters with Godard

Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6064-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

A wide-ranging and accessible approach to Godard’s later work, and a major intervention in the study of film and ethics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, James S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 cinéma (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

Über Autor(innen)

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.