Talking Images

The Archaeology of Film and the Memory of a Century

By: Jean-Luc Godard, John Howe (Translator), Youssef Ishaghpour

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Hardcover | 1 September 2010

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160 Pages

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18.9 x 13.4 x 1.2

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Translated by John Howe Cinema is quite simply a unique book from one of the most influential film-makers in the history of cinema. Here, Jean-Luc Godard looks back on a century of film as well as his own work and career in the industry. Born with the twentieth century, cinema became not just the century's dominant art form but its best historian. Godard argues that - after the century of Chaplin and Pol Pot, Monroe and Hitler, Stalin and Mae West, Mao and the Marx Brothers - film and history are inextricably intertwined. Against this backdrop, Godard presents his thoughts on film theory, cinematic technique, film histories, as well as the recent video revolution. As the conversation develops, Godard expounds on his central concerns - how film can "resurrect the past", the role of rhythm in film, and how cinema can be an "art that thinks". Cinema: the archaeology of film and the memory of a century is a dialogue between Godard and the celebrated cinphile Youssef Ishaghpour. Here Godard comes closest to defining a lifetime's obsession with cinema and cinema's lifelong obsession with history.

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"[Godard]'s also as independent and provocative as ever, as illustrated by this collaboration with Ishaghpour, which results in a spirited dialog between the men that ranges freely among such subjects as cinema, history, art, music, literature, and philosophy, concentrating in particular on multiple definitions of history and their implications for cinema and the status of cinema as an art." --Library Journal

"The greatest living cinematic artist, the wisest, most transformative, most original agent provocateur at work in the fields of cinema? The short answer: sans doute. Godard is to his medium what Joyce, Stravinsky, Eliot, and Picasso were to theirs: rule-rewriting colossi after whom human expression would never be quite the same." --Village Voice on Godard's Cinematic Work

"It's possible to hate half or two-thirds of what Godard does--or find it incomprehensible--and
still be shattered by his brilliance." --Pauline Kael on Godard's Cinematic Work

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