A Companion to Jean-Luc Godard

?Jean-Luc Godard not only reinvented the cinema; he also challenged film viewers to become engaged cinephiles, whether in terms of politics, theory, gender, or the history of film itself. Godard?s work is and has always been provocative, and that it has remained so since the beginnings of the New Wave attests to the magnitude of the director?s achievement. Tom Conley and T. Jefferson Kline have assembled a remarkable collection, representing a wide range of perspectives on Godard?s achievement. The book is a must-read for anyone who has ever been entranced or frustrated, fascinated or enraged with Godard?s cinematic imagination.? Judith Mayne, Ohio State University "In generating this superb and intellectually diverse collection of original essays, the editors have accomplished the crucial work of critics, which is to demonstrate the vast range and immense depth of a great artist?s work." Ted Perry, Middlebury College

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 Bertoluccis 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.

Notes on Contributors viii Introduction 1 Tom Conley and T. Jefferson Kline 1 From Pen to Camera: Another Critic 11 Jean-Michel Frodon 2 bout de souffle: Trials in New Coherences 21 Phillip John Usher 3 Mdicis 15-37: Bernardo Bertolucci vs. Jean-Luc Godard 44 Fabien S. Grard 4 Un Femme est infme: Godards Writing Lesson 60 Elizabeth Ezra 5 Michel Legrand Scores Une femme est une femme 71 Kareem Roustom 6 Three-Way Mirroring in Vivre sa vie 89 Maureen Turim 7 Commerce and the War of the Sexes: Laetitia Masson and Jean-Luc Godard 108 Martine Beugnet 8 Les Carabiniers: BB Guns at War and at the Movies 119 Gerald Peary 9 A Postmodern Consideration of Jean-Luc Godards Le Mpris 128 Emily Macaux 10 Totally, Tenderly, Tragically . . . and in Color: Another Look at Godards Le Mpris 143 Steven Ungar 11 Le Mpris: Landscapes as Tragedy 156 Ludovic Cortade 12 Bande(s) part: Godards Contraband Poetry 171 T. Jefferson Kline 13 Pierrot le fou and a Legacy of Forme 187 Tom Conley 14 Godards Wars 197 Philip Watts 15 (D)collage: Bazin, Godard, Aragon 210 Douglas Smith 16 The Children of Marx and Esso: Oil Companies and Cinematic Writing in 1960s Godard 224 Thomas Odde 17 One or Two Points About Two or Three Things I Know About Her 243 Jacqueline Levitin 18 Godards Remote Control 263 John Hulsey 19 La Chinoise ... et aprs?: Aging Against Tradition 282 Grace An 20 Jean-Luc, Community, and Communication 296 Marc Cerisuelo 21 On and Under Communication 318 Michael Witt 22 Factories and the Factory 351 Amie Siegel 23 Passions Ghost 367 Murray Pomerance 24 Schizoanalyzing Souls: Godard, Deleuze, and the Mystical Line of Flight 383 David Sterritt 25 Godard the Hegelian 403 Daniel Fairfax 26 Godards Ecotechnics 420 Verena Andermatt Conley 27 Retrospective Godard 430 Elisabeth Hodges 28 An Accurate Description of What Has Never Occurred: History, Virtuality, and Fiction in Godard 441 Scott Durham 29 Noli me tangere: Jean-Luc Godards Histoire(e)s du cinma 456 Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli 30 Godard the Historiographer: From Histoires du cinma to the Beaubourg Exhibition 488 Trond Lundemo 31 The Old Place, Space of Legends 504 Margaret C. Flinn 32 Notre musique: Juste une conversation 514 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) 527 Irmgard Emmelhainz Index 546