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Jean-Luc Godard

The Permanent Revolutionary (book in English)

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by Bert Rebhandl

Type: Studies
Subject: Director > Jean-Luc Godard
Keywords: Jean-Luc Godard
Publishing Date: 2023 (May 16, 2023)
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Collection: (no collection)
Language: English

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Paperback • ? pages
6 x 9 inches (15.5 x 23 cm)

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978-0-299-34180-0

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Book Presentation:
In this biography, now translated into English for the first time, Bert Rebhandl provides a balanced evaluation of the work of one of the most original and influential film directors of all time: Jean-Luc Godard (1930–2022). In this sympathetic yet critical overview, he argues that Godard's work captured the revolutionary spirit of Paris in the late 1960s as no other filmmaker has dared, and in fact reinvented the medium.

Rebhandl skillfully weaves together biographical details; information about the cultural, intellectual, and cinematic milieu over the decades; and descriptions of Godard’s most significant films to support his assertion that the director was a permanent revolutionary—always seeking new ways to create, understand, and comment on film within a larger context. He views Godard as an artist consistently true to himself while never ceasing to change and evolve, often in unexpected, radical, and controversial ways.

Rebhandl is known as a journalist with deep insights and lucid prose. Despite the wealth of material to analyze, he neither gets lost in the details nor offers a superficial gloss, even while directly tackling such topics as the long-standing charges of antisemitism against Godard and his œuvre. This volume will be welcome to both casual fans and dedicated devotees.

About the Author:
Bert Rebhandl is a freelance journalist whose writings have appeared in such venues as Frankfurter Allgemeine and tipBerlin. He is the author of several previous books written in German.

Edward Maltby is a UK-based translator. He holds a degree in modern and medieval languages from Cambridge University.

Contents:
List of Illustrations
Preface

Introduction
1 Modern Times: 1950 to 1959
2 Pop Art: 1959 to 1967
3 Revolutionary Cinema: 1967 to 1972
4 Video, Ergo Sum: 1973 to 1980
5 The Idiot of Cinema: 1980 to 1996
6 The Partisan of Images: 1997 to 2020
7 The Joy of Learning

Notes
Bibliography
Filmography
Chronology
Index

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