This compendium of original essays offers invaluable insights into the life and works of one of the most important and influential directors in the history of cinema, exploring his major films, philosophy, politics, and connections to other critics and directors.

Table of Contents

• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction Tom Conley; T. Jefferson Kline
• 1 From Pen to Camera: Another Critic Jean-Michel Frodon
• 2 À bout de souffle: Trials in New Coherences Phillip John Usher
• 3 "Médicis 15-37": Bernardo Bertolucci vs. Jean-Luc Godard Fabien S. Gérard
• 4 Un Femme est infâme: Godard's Writing Lesson Elizabeth Ezra
• 5 Michel Legrand Scores Une femme est une femme Kareem Roustom
• 6 Three-Way Mirroring in Vivre sa vie Maureen Turim
• 7 Commerce and the War of the Sexes: Laetitia Masson and Jean-Luc Godard Martine Beugnet
• 8 Les Carabiniers: BB Guns at War and at the Movies Gerald Peary
• 9 A Postmodern Consideration of Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mépris Emily Macaux
• 10 Totally, Tenderly, Tragically … and in Color: Another Look at Godard's Le Mépris Steven Ungar
• 11 Le Mépris: Landscapes as Tragedy Ludovic Cortade
• 12 Bande(s) à part: Godard's Contraband Poetry T. Jefferson Kline
• 13 Pierrot le fou and a Legacy of Forme Tom Conley
• 14 Godard's Wars Philip Watts
• 15 (Dé)collage: Bazin, Godard, Aragon Douglas Smith
• 16 The Children of Marx and Esso: Oil Companies and Cinematic Writing in 1960s Godard Thomas Odde
• 17 One or Two Points About Two or Three Things I Know About Her Jacqueline Levitin
• 18 Godard's Remote Control John Hulsey
• 19 La Chinoise … et après?: Aging Against Tradition Grace An
• 20 Jean-Luc, Community, and Communication Marc Cerisuelo
• 21 On and Under Communication Michael Witt
• 22 Factories and the Factory Amie Siegel
• 23 Passion's Ghost Murray Pomerance
• 24 Schizoanalyzing Souls: Godard, Deleuze, and the Mystical Line of Flight David Sterritt
• 25 Godard the Hegelian Daniel Fairfax
• 26 Godard's Ecotechnics Verena Andermatt Conley
• 27 Retrospective Godard Elisabeth Hodges
• 28 "An Accurate Description of What Has Never Occurred": History, Virtuality, and Fiction in Godard Scott Durham
• 29 Noli me tangere: Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(e)s du cinéma Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli
• 30 Godard the Historiographer: From Histoires du cinéma to the Beaubourg Exhibition Trond Lundemo
• 31 The Old Place, Space of Legends Margaret C. Flinn
• 32 Notre musique: Juste une conversation 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) Irmgard Emmelhainz