Jean-Luc Godard, Cinema Historian
An edition of Jean-Luc Godard, Cinema Historian (2013)
By Michael Witt
Publish Date
2013
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Language
eng
Pages
288
Description:
Originally released as a videographic experiment in film history, Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du cinema has been widely hailed as a landmark in how we think about and narrate cinema history, and in how history is taught through cinema. In this stunningly illustrated volume, Michael Witt explores Godard's landmark work as both a specimen of an artist's vision and a philosophical statement on the history of film. Witt contextualizes Godard's theories and approaches to historiography and provides a guide to the wide-ranging cinematic, aesthetic, and cultural forces that shaped Godard's groundbreaking ideas on the history of cinema.