Jean-Luc Godard, Cinema Historian

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Title: Jean-Luc Godard, Cinema Historian
Description: Originally released as a videographic experiment in film history, Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma has pioneered 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.
Authors: Michael Witt
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: Motion pictures and history
Categories: PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director
Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
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Abstract:Originally released as a videographic experiment in film history, Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma has pioneered 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.
ISBN:9780253007223
9780253007285
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