Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le Fou (Cambridge Film Handbooks)
Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le fou, made at the height of the French New Wave, remains a milestone in French cinema.  More accessible than his later films, it represents the diverse facets of Godard's concerns and themes:  a bittersweet analysis of male-female relations; an interrogation of the image; personal and international politics; the existential dilemmas of consumer society.  This volume brings together essays by five prominent scholars of French film.  They approach Pierrot le fou from the perspectives of image-and-word-play, aesthetics and politics, history, and high- and popular culture.