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The Films of Jean-Luc Godard
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One of the most important, controversial, and prolific filmmakers in film history, and a founder of French New Wave cinema, Jean-Luc Godard has maintained an unbroken string of films in various genres and mediums from the late 1950s onward. Godard has established a reputation as a rebel who can work within and outside the system, producing films that are creative, breathtakingly beautiful, and yet commercial enough to earn back their production costs. In this book, Wheeler Winston Dixon offers an overview of all of Godard's work as a filmmaker, including his work for television and his ethnographic work in Africa. Free from the jargon and value judgments that have marred much of what has been written about Godard, this is the only book that covers the entirety of Godard's career, from his early film criticism for Cahiers du Cinema to his more recent video/film work, illustrated with forty-six rare stills and researched in detail.
About the Author:
Wheeler Winston Dixon is the James Ryan Emeritus Professor of Film Studies, at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, editor of the book series Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture for Rutgers University Press.His recent books include Synthetic Cinema: The 21st Century Movie Machine (2019); Black & White Cinema: A Short History (2015); Streaming: Movies, Media and Instant Access (2013); Death of the Moguls: The End of Classical Hollywood (2012); 21st Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era of Transformation (2011, co-authored with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster); A History of Horror (2010); and Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia (2009). Dixon's book A Short History of Film (2008, co-authored with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster) was reprinted six times through 2012. A second, revised edition was published in 2013; a third, revised edition was published in 2018. The book is a required text in universities throughout the world.Visit wheelerwinstondixon.com for more details on Dixon's books, films, and articles.
Press Reviews:
"Dixon [covers] Godard's early guerrilla assault on genre entertainments, from A Bout de souffle (Breathless, 1960) to La Chinoise (1967), and to his later work - both his political-activist partnership with Jean-Pierre Gorin (from Le Week-end, 1967, on) and his autumnal film and video meditations on loss, aging, and the death of cinema. For each work the author provides production background, a succinct description, and a summary of formal and thematic concerns. A 43-page filmography helps make this the fullest English-language survey to date of Godard's career." -- Maurice Yacowar, Choice
"Anyone interested in the history of European films in the last fifty years of the twentieth century needs the kind of comprehensive summing up the book provides. This is a succinct and well-balanced account of a long and distinguished career, with plausible interpretations of Godard as a man, filmmaker, and recorder of our century." -- Edward T. Jones, author of Following Directions: The Cinema of Peter Brook
"In this book that very adeptly combines biography, history, description and summary of films, theoretical analysis, and a vast knowledge of the film industry, Dixon situates Godard's films as both objects and projects in the present situation, through the perspective of how this situation has taken shape over the last forty years. He offers an explanation of capital as it manifests itself in the film industry--a favorite target of Godardian critique--to show how it was in the fluctuations of capital itself that Godard was first able to present his images to the public." - Hassan Melehy
"Wheeler Winston Dixon's book presents a macroscopic viewof Godard's career to date, covering every film or video he has evermade. It is divided into five chapters . . . divid[ing] the New Wave into two at Le Mepris, an elegyfor a decayed studio system (incarnated in Fritz Lang) which he seesas marking an irreversible disenchantment with the industry,portraying Prokosch, the producer (played by Jack Palance) as'simultaneously ruthless, vain, childish, arrogant, stupid, greedy,self-deluding'." -- Peter Wollen, London Review of Books
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