Godard Jean-Luc - A Companion to Jean-Luc Godard

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This edition first published 2014

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A companion to Jean-Luc Godard / edited by Tom Conley and T. Jefferson Kline.

1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN 978-1-118-58699-0 (Adobe PDF) ISBN 978-1-118-58701-0 (ePub) ISBN 978-0-470-65926-7 (cloth) 1. Godard, Jean-Luc, 1930Criticism and interpretation. I. Conley, Tom, editor of compilation. II. Kline, T. Jefferson (Thomas Jefferson), 1942- editor of compilation.

PN1998.3.G63

791.4302'33092dc23

2014004782

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Cover image: Jean-Luc Godard during a press conference in Zurich, October 1993. Photo: akg-images / Niklaus Stauss

Cover design by Nicki Averill

Grace An is Associate Professor of French and Cinema Studies at Oberlin College. Her articles on films by Olivier Assayas, Alain Resnais, and Chris Marker have appeared in Contemporary French Civilization, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies (SITES), The Moving Image, and Chinese Connections: Critical Perspectives of Film, Identity, and Diaspora (2009). She is currently at work on stars and aging, with an article on Jane Fonda in Transnational Stardom: International Celebrity in Film and Popular Culture (2013).

Martine Beugnet is Professor in Visual Studies at the University of Paris 7 Diderot. She has written articles and essays on a wide range of film and media topics, and has published four books: Sexualit, marginalit, contrle: cinma franais contemporain (2000), Claire Denis (2004), Proust at the Movies (2005), and Cinema and Sensation: French Film and the Art of Transgression (2007, 2012). She also co-directs, together with Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, a book series in film studies at Edinburgh University Press.

Marc Cerisuelo is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Aix-Marseille (France). He previously taught at the universities of Paris 3, Paris 7, Chicago and Genve. He has published books on Godard Jean-Luc Godard (1989), JLG: au-del de l'image (ed.) (1993), Le Mpris (2006) and on American cinema Hollywood l'cran. Les mtafilms amricains (2000), Preston Sturges ou le gnie de l'Amrique (2002), and Vienne et Berlin Hollywood (ed.) (2006). He also edited (with Sandra Laugier) the first collection of essays in French devoted to Stanley Cavell's work on film Stanley Cavell. Cinma et philosophie (2001). His most recent book is Fondus enchans. Essais de potique du cinma (2012).

Tom Conley, Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and Visual & Environmental Studies at Harvard University, author of Film Hieroglyphs (1991/2006), Cartographic Cinema (2007), An Errant Eye (2011) and other books, has translated works by Marc Aug, Michel de Certeau, Gilles Deleuze, Jean Louis Schefer, and others. He is finishing An Inventive Bent, a study of literature and cartography in the aftermath of the Wars of Religion and a monograph titled Auteur Raoul Walsh.

Verena Andermatt Conley teaches in Comparative Literature and Romance Languages and Literature at Harvard University. She has written on feminism, ecology, and technology. Her books include Rethinking Technologies, (ed.) (1997), Ecopolitics