Breathless
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Few films have shattered the conventions of cinema as decisively as Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 masterpiece Breathless (À bout de souffle), and this scholarly volume presents the film in its full cultural and artistic complexity. The collection assembles the complete screenplay alongside a rich array of critical essays, interviews, and contextual documents, charting the journey of a small-budget French New Wave film into one of the most influential works in the history of cinema. At its center is the story of Michel Poiccard, a small-time criminal and American-movie obsessive whose reckless romance with an American student in Paris becomes a meditation on freedom, identity, and inevitable destruction. Edited by Dudley Andrew, one of the foremost scholars of French cinema, this volume situates Breathless within the revolutionary intellectual and aesthetic currents of postwar France, illuminating Godard's radical use of jump cuts, improvised dialogue, and direct address to the camera that permanently altered the grammar of filmmaking. The Rutgers Films in Print series, of which this is a distinguished entry, chronicles landmark cinematic works with the same rigorous attention afforded to great literature — a testament to film's rightful place in the canon of the arts. For anyone seeking to understand why Godard's debut feature continues to provoke, inspire, and unsettle audiences more than six decades after its release, this is an indispensable guide.
Author: Jean-Luc Godard (Director); Dudley Andrew (Editor)
Format: Paperback
Genre: Movies & entertainment
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few films have shattered the conventions of cinema as decisively as Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 masterpiece Breathless (À bout de souffle), and this scholarly volume presents the film in its full cultural and artistic complexity. The collection assembles the complete screenplay alongside a rich array of critical essays, interviews, and contextual documents, charting the journey of a small-budget French New Wave film into one of the most influential works in the history of cinema. At its center is the story of Michel Poiccard, a small-time criminal and American-movie obsessive whose reckless romance with an American student in Paris becomes a meditation on freedom, identity, and inevitable destruction. Edited by Dudley Andrew, one of the foremost scholars of French cinema, this volume situates Breathless within the revolutionary intellectual and aesthetic currents of postwar France, illuminating Godard's radical use of jump cuts, improvised dialogue, and direct address to the camera that permanently altered the grammar of filmmaking. The Rutgers Films in Print series, of which this is a distinguished entry, chronicles landmark cinematic works with the same rigorous attention afforded to great literature — a testament to film's rightful place in the canon of the arts. For anyone seeking to understand why Godard's debut feature continues to provoke, inspire, and unsettle audiences more than six decades after its release, this is an indispensable guide.