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Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy
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The hugely acclaimed biography of one of history's greatest directors, Jean-Luc Godard

'MacCabe's book is in a league of its own ... this is a rich, rewarding and essential read for anyone seriously interested in the intellectual, cultural and cinematic history of Europe since World War II'
Sight and Sound

'Godard fans, practitioners of cinema and anyone interested in the intellectual and artistic life of the second half of the twentieth century should read this important and entertaining book' Observer

Jean-Luc Godard's early films revolutionised the language of cinema for everyone, from the Superbrats of Hollywood to the political cinema of the Third World. Yet in l968 he abandoned one of the most brilliant careers in French cinema to pursue his investigations into sound and image on the periphery of the industry he had rejected.

Following a protected childhood in Switzerland in the Second World War, the post-war years saw Godard as a troubled adolescent in Paris, where the prescribed courses of the Sorbonne were ignored in favour of the extraordinary teaching of André Bazin, the greatest of film critics.

In the pages of Cahiers du Cinema, Godard - together with Truffaut, Rohmer, Rivette and Chabrol - hammered out an aesthetic that would take the world by storm as the young critics swapped pens for cameras at the end of the 1950s to create the cinema of the nouvelle vague.

Hugely prolific in his first 10 years - A Bout de Souffle, Le Petit Soldat, Le Mepris, Pierrot Le Fou, Alphaville, Made in USA and many others all appeared in the 1960s - Godard became and remains one of the most adventurous and enigmatic film-directors at work in the world today.
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Release dateJul 14, 2016
ISBN9781408847138
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Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy
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Colin MacCabe

COLIN MACCABE is Distinguished Professor of English and Film at the University of Pittsburgh and Associate Director of the London Consortium.

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    Great book. Mcabe' biography is extremely rich in detail.He provides a clever (yet necessarily succint ) analysis of his theories of film and artistic achievements: He writes about Bazin's influence on Godard, particularly his theory of the onthology of the film image, he main aspects of the New Wave and Godard's subsequent political and experimental films in a deceitfully simple and extremely entertaining prose. But what makes this book special is that McCabe puts Godar's life firmly in the context of his lifetime, offering in the process a very welcome sweep of the 20th century main historical events and artistic currents. Psychoanalisys, Lacan, Derrida, Lenin, Mao, May 68, all are described in the book in relation to their influence of Godard's life and work . McCabe is so thorough that he even gives a description of the prosecution of protestantism in France and their eventual grip on France cultural and political life in order to contextualise Godard's background. Highly recommended