Godard
Subtitle: a portrait of the artist at 70
By: Colin MacCabe ; filmography and picture research by Sally Shafto.
Contributors: Shafto, Sally.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
Subjects: Godard, Jean Luc, 1930-; Motion picture producers and directors -- France -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Jean-Luc Godard's early films revolutionized the language of cinema. Hugely prolific in his first decade - Breathless, Contempt, Pierrot le Fou, Alphaville, and Made in USA are just a handful of the seminal works he directed - Godard introduced filmgoers to the generation of stars associated with the trumpeted sexuality of postwar movies and culture: Brigitte Bardot, Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Anna Karina." "Drawing on his own working experience with Godard and his coterie, Colin MacCabe, in this first biography of the director, has written a thrilling account of the French cinema's transformation in the hands of Truffaut, Rohmer, Rivette, and Chabrol - critics who toppled the old aesthetics by becoming, legendarily, directors themselves - and Godard's determination to make cinema the greatest of the arts."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Filmography: p. 335-374.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-385) and index.
Originally published: Great Britain : Bloomsbury Press, 2003.