Michael Witt

Jean-Luc Godard, Cinema Historian

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Originally released as a videographic experiment in film history, Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma has pioneered how we think about and narrate cinema history, and in how history is taught through cinema. In this stunningly illustrated volume, Michael Witt explores Godard's landmark work as both a specimen of an artist's vision and a philosophical statement on the history of film. Witt contextualizes Godard's theories and approaches to historiography and provides a guide to the wide-ranging cinematic, aesthetic, and cultural forces that shaped Godard's groundbreaking ideas on the history of cinema.
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570 printed pages
Original publication
2013
Publication year
2013
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  • reizen99186has quoted3 years ago
    proposal and demonstration of a cinematically inspired method of fabricating history based on the principle of the montage of disparate phenomena in poetic imagery. “Bring together things that have as yet never been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so,” he suggests simply, citing Robert Bresson.4
  • reizen99186has quoted3 years ago
    he past is never dead. It’s not even past,” he says at one point in the series, citing William Faulkner’s celebrated dictum.3 If the fundamental challenge facing all historians is that of bringing the past to life, Godard’s response to that challenge – the central tenet of his theorem – is the pro
  • Dinmukhamed Sadibekovhas quoted5 years ago
    films should be made for popular consumption, and be desired and valued by their popular audience. Contrary to music and painting, he argues, cinema brought real art to the masses:
    Painting never experienced this: Goya was seen by very few people; Beethoven was little heard.… But cinema was immediately seen by one hundred people at the Grand Café.

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