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Book SynopsisIn his introduction, Dudley Andrews illuminates the intertextual and cultural references of the film and the tensions within it between tradition and innovation. This volume also features the complete and accurate continuity script of the film, together with Truffaut's original screenplay.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Breathless: Old as New / 3
Dudley Andrew
Jean-Luc Godard: A Biographical
Sketch / 21
Breathless Credits and Cast / 31
The Continuity Script / 33
Notes on the Continuity Script / 147
The Original Treatment, Francois
Truffaut / 153
Interviews, Reviews, and Commentaries Interview with Godard
Yvonne Baby,
Le Monde, March 18, 1960 / 165
Jean-Luc Godard, "I'm Not Out of Breath,"
Art, March 1960 / 167
Films and Filming, September 1961 / 169
Cahier du Cinema, December 1962 / 171
Statements
Geoges de Beauregard, Producer, 1963 / 175
Raoul Coutard, Director of Photography, 1963 / 175
Francois Truffaut, 1963 / 177
Reviews
Le Monde, Jean de Baroncelli / 181
Arts, Pierre Marcabru / 183
Le Figaro Litteraire, Claude Mauriac / 184
Le Figaro, Louis Chauvet / 186
Variety, Gene Moskowitz / 188
Sight and Sound, Louis Marcorelles / 189
The New York Times, Bosley Crowther / 191
The New York Republic, Stanley Kauffmann / 193
Times / 195
Film Quarterly, Arlene Croce / 197
Esquire, Dwight MacDonald / 200
The Times (London) / 203
Films and Filming, Gordon Gow / 204
Commentaries
Jean-Luc Gordard, Luc Moullet / 209
On
Breathless, Jean Carta / 215
A Bout de Souffle, Charles Barr / 220
The Graphic in Filmic Writing, Marie-Claire Ropars / 224
Filmography and Bibliography Gordard Filmography, 1954-1985 / 235
Selected Bibliography / 239
