Description
Book SynopsisOffers a history and analysis of the essay film, one of the most significant forms of intellectual filmmaking since the end of World War II. Warner incisively reconsiders the defining traits and legacies of this still-evolving genre through a groundbreaking examination of the vast and formidable oeuvre of Jean-Luc Godard.
Trade Review“
Godard and the Essay Film is a first-rate piece of scholarship that makes substantial contributions on a variety of topics, including the essay as literary and cinematic form, film and philosophy, and the study of the indispensable oeuvre of Jean-Luc Godard." —Michael Renov, author of
The Subject of Documentary"
Godard and the Essay Film is an exceptionally innovative and fresh study that manages to rethink one of the most important and challenging filmmakers in cinema history. In the process, Warner has also engaged one of the most important and prominent waves in modern filmmaking, the essay film. While there is a growing body of scholarship on this subject, Warner's more focused engagement offers keen new insights that extend beyond Godard's work." —Timothy Corrigan, author of
The Essay Film: From Montaigne, after MarkerTable of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Research in the Form of a Spectacle
- Chapter Two: A Critical Poetics of Citation
- Chapter Three: Refiguring the Couple: Love, Dialogue, and Gesture
- Chapter Four: To Show and Show Oneself Showing: Essayistic Self-Portrayal
- Coda
- Stereoscopic Essays for the New Century
- Notes
- Index
