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The cinema alone : essays on the work of Jean-Luc Godard 1985-2000

Describes the importance of Jean-Luc Godard's work for the 21th century.
Print Book, English, 2000
Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2000
Literary criticism
269 pages ; 24 cm.
9789053564554, 9789053564561, 9053564551, 905356456X
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Introduction to the mysteries of cinema, 1985-2000 / Michael Temple and James S. Williams
Montage, my beautiful care, or histories of the cinematograph / Michael Witt
Elizabeth Taylor at Auschwitz : JLG and the real object of montage / Alan Wright
'The present never exists there' : the temporality of decision in Godard's later film and video essays / Jonathan Dronsfield
Big rhythm and the power of metamorphosis : some models and precursors for Histoire(s) du cinéma / Michael Temple
Mortal Beauty / Jaques Aumont
European culture and artistic resistance in Histoire(s) du cinéma / James S. Williams
The Evidence and uncertainty of silent film in Histoire(s) du cinéma / Vicki Callahan
The crisis of cinema in the age of the new world memory : the baroque performance of King Lear / Timothy Murray
The Power of language : note on Puissance de la parole, Le dernier mot and On s'est tous défilé / Jean-Louis Leutrat
Investigation of mystery : cinema and the sacred in Hélas pour moi / Lætitia Fieschi-Vivet