Reading with Jean-Luc Godard

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Reading with
Jean-Luc Godard

Preface and coda
by Fredric Jameson

In this one-of-a-kind volume, 50 specialists working in a dozen countries engage with 109 books by 90 authors found over nearly 70 years of Godard’s films and writings. Each of these readable three-page mini-essays explores a corner of the extraordinary breadth and depth of Godard’s reading.

The most comprehensive collection in English

The André Bazin Reader

A 670-page collection of writings by André Bazin throughout his entire career. The most comprehensive edition of Bazin’s writings in English, casting his ideas in an entirely new light. Soon to be accompanied by over 2,000 epigrams from his entire body of work, André Bazin, Rhetorician: Epigrams 1942-1958.

New takes on film aesthetics

Montage, Découpage, Mise en scène: Essays on Film Form

Le Forestier, Barnard, Kessler

The lively discussions in the essays in this volume explore questions of film aesthetics from unique theoretical and historical perspectives around these three fundamental concepts.

The only complete edition

Introduction to a True History of Cinema and Television

Jean-Luc Godard

The first-ever English translation of this monumental discussion of film art by cinema’s preeminent director, incorporating countless corrections and additions to the French edition.