A Companion to Jean–Luc Godard

Enigmatic and visionary, pioneer of the French New Wave movement, Jean–Luc Godard remains one of the most influential filmmakers of the post–war era. A Companion to Jean–Luc Godard presents a compendium of original essays by top film scholars that focus on a wide range of issues relating to Godard’s illustrious cinematic career. Featuring contributions from an international cast of major film theorists and critics, the majority of essays focus on several of the major films in Godard’s remarkably prolific film oeuvre – some 70 features in nearly 60 years. Other readings bring fresh insights into the great director’s biography, including reflections on his personal philosophy, politics, and connections to other critics and filmmakers. A Companion to Jean–Luc Godard offers invaluable insights into the life and works of one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.

Introduction 1. From Pen to Camera: Another Critic Jean–Michel Frodon 2. A bout de souffle : Trials in New Coherences       Philip John Usher 3. Jean–Luc Godard and François Truffaut, I: Riding the New Wave Antoine de Baecque 4. “MEDICIS 15–37”: Bernardo Bertolucci vs. Jean–Luc Godard Fabien Gérard 5. Un Femme est Infâme: Godard’s Writing Lesson    Elizabeth Ezra 6. Michel Legrand Scores Une femme est une femme    Kareem Roustom 7. Three–Way Mirroring in Vivre sa vie      Maureen Turim 8. Commerce and The War of the Sexes: Laetitia Masson and Jean–Luc Godar Martine Beugnet 9. Les Carabiniers : BB Guns at War and at the Movies     Gerald Peary 10. A Postmodern Consideration of Jean–Luc Godard’s Le Mépris      Emily Macaux 11. Totally, Tenderly, Tragically . . . and in Color: Another Look at JLG’s Le Mépris Steven Ungar 12. Le Mépris : Landscape as Tragedy      Ludovic Cortade 13. Bande(s) à part: Godard’s Contraband Poetry       T. Jefferson Kline 14. Pierrot le fou and a Legacy of Forme         Tom Conley 15. Godard’s Wars           Philip Watts 16. (Dé)collage : Bazin, Godard, Aragon        Douglas Smith 17. The Children of Marx and Esso: Oil Companies and Cinematic Writing in 1960s Godard            Thomas Odde 18. One or Two Points About Two or Three Things I Know About Her    Jacqueline Levitin  19. The Subject in the Age of Radio–Telecommunications: Godard’s and His Actors in Deux ou trois choses que je sais d’elle        John Hulsey 20. Jean–Luc Godard and François Truffaut, II: The Decline of the Friendship Antoine de Baecque 21 La Chinoise … et après?: Aging Against Tradition      Grace An 22. Community and Communication         Marc Cerisuelo 23. On and Under Communication         Michael Witt 24. Factories and the Factory         Amie Siegel 25. Passion ’s Ghost           Murray Pomerance 26 Schizoanalyzing Souls: Godard, Deleuze, and the Mystical Line of Flight David Sterritt 27. Godard the Hegelian          Daniel Fairfax 28. JLG/JLG           Verena Andermatt Conley                29. Retrospective Godard          Elisabeth Hodges 30. An Accurate Description of What Has Never Occurred:  History, Virtuality, and Fiction in Godard    Scott Durham 31. Noli me tangere: Jean–Luc Godard’s Histoire(e)s du cinéma      Kriss Ravetto–Biagiol 32. Godard the Historiographer: From Histoires du cinéma to the Beaubourg Exhibition Trond Lundemo 32. The Old Place , Space of Legends         Margaret C. Flinn 33. Notre Musique : Juste une conversation Erin Schlumpf 33. Jean–Luc Godard: To Liberate Things from the Name that we have Imposed on Them ( Film… ) To Announce Dissonances Parting from a Note in Common ( Socialisme ) Irmgard Emmelhainz

Tom Conley is Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and Visual & Environmental Studies at Harvard University. His publications include Film Hieroglyphs (2006), Cartographic Cinema (2007), An Errant Eye (2011), and others. T. Jefferson Kline is Professor of French at Boston University. His publications include Bertolucci’s Dream Loom (1987), Screening the Text: Intertextuality and New Wave French Cinema (1992), Unraveling French Cinema (2010), and a variety of essays on French and European literature and film.