Cinema=Jean-Luc Godard=Cinema
ESSAYS

MY GODARD-RELATED WORK

”Nostalgia for the Present: The Godard Renaissance Continued”, Senses of Cinema Issue 35 (April-June 2005).
“Contempt: DVD Review.” Cinema Scope Issue 14 (March 2003): 48.
“Between Seeing and Reading – A Report on the Reading Godard Conference.” Senses of Cinema Issue 20 (May-June 2002).
“The Godard Renaissance: Impossible Work.” Cinema Scope Issue 6 (Winter 2001): 62-64.
“A Man Under the Influence: An Interview with Reg Harkema.” Cinema Scope Issue 3 (Summer 2000): 8-12.
“The Beauty of Immediacy: Nouvelle Vague.” Cinema Scope Issue 2 (Winter 2000): 72.
Je vous salue, Marie: The Pretence of Cinematic Law
Godard's Passion
Godard's Armide: A Distance Between Art and Pornography(?)

SOME OTHER ESSAYS OF MINE

ACADEMIC ESSAYS ON THE WEB

Special Godard journal issues:
- Cahiers du cinema No. 300
- NY Film Bulletin No. 46 (1964)
- Hungarian film journal Metropolis: Issue 4 (1999)
- Brazilian film journal Contracampo: Issue 4, Issue 5, Issue 6, Issue 37
Papers from Seminar Jean-Luc Godard, Erforschung des Realen:
- Nackte Tatsachen und paradoxe Schleifen
- Godard beim Denken zuschauen and God? Art., by Johannes Rosenstein
- Weekend, by Clara Brandenburg/Beate Kieser
- Der Film zwischen den Bildern (Psychologie sehen), by Bernd Leuterer
- Jean-Luc Godard, by Falko Seidel
By David Sterrit:
- Thanatos ex Machina: Godard Caresses the Dead
- Cool then cool now
- Speaking and Writing about Godard
- Words and meaning in the age of images
By Gary Elshaw:
- The Depiction of Late 1960's Counter Culture in the 1968 Films of Jean-Luc Godard
- One Plus One
From the Situationist International:
- New Forms of Action Against Politics and Art, by René Viénet
- The Role of Godard
- Cinema and Revolution
- For a Revolutionary Judgment of Art,
- Godard in Berkeley
By Mike Figgis:
- Ten things I love about Jean-Luc Godard
- "I came out of the cinema high as a kite"
By James Roy MacBean:
- Vent d'est or Godard and Rocha at the Crossroads
- Politics, painting, and the language of signs in Godard's Made in USA
By Serge Daney:
- The T(h)errorized (Godardian Pedagogy)
- On "Salador"
- Interview from 1977
From SENSES OF CINEMA:
- Leap into the Void: Godard and the Painter, by Sally Shafto
- Great Directors: A Critical Database. Jean Luc Godard, by Craig Keller
- End Game: Some thoughts provoked by recent exhibitions, and Godard’s Éloge de l'amour, by Jon Jost
- Before and After: Origins and Death in the Work of Jean-Luc Godard, by André Habib
- Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma, Parts 1A & 1B: Tales from the Crypt, by Adrian Martin
- Only the Cinema, by John Conomos
- A Beautiful Exception: Godard's For Ever Mozart, by Fergus Daly
- The Man With The Magnétoscope – Jean-Luc Godard's monumental Histoire(s) du cinéma as SoundImageTextBook, by Alexander Horwath
- Because of Tenderness: Thoughts on the Performance of Jean-Pierre Léaud, by Rhys Graham
- Vivre sa vie, by Adrian Danks
- Détective, by Anna Dzenis
- Germany Year 90 Nine Zero by Marc Lauria
From JUMP CUT:
- Numéro Deux: Godard’s Synthesis: Politics and the Personal, by Reynold Humphries
- Le Gai Savoir: Godard and Eisenstein — Notions of Intellectual Cinema, by Ruth Perlmutter
- Le Gai Savoir: Picture and Act — Godard’s Plexus, by James Monaco
The Religious Affiliation of Director Jean-Luc Godard, from Adherents.com
SHAPESHIFTER: Godard as Multimedia Installation Artist, by Michael Witt
Jean-Luc Godard, by Luc Moullet
Alphaville & Its Subtext, by Michael Benedikt
Godard's Weekend, Brecht, and Representation, by Elizabeth Theis
An Audiovisual Brain: Towards a Digital Image of Thought in Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma, by Pasi Valiaho (pdf)
The Political Aspect of Jean-Luc Godard's Cinephile Period: Pierrot le fou and the Situationist Internationale in the Years Leading up to May 68, by Chris
Esthétique cinématographique et technologie numérique: Jean-Luc Godard et Lars Von Trier, by Thierry Millet (pdf)
Un altro sguardo è possibile: Tavola rotonda su Jean-Luc Godard, with Edoardo Bruno, Alessandro Cappabianca, Daniele Dottorini, Lorenzo Esposito, Simone Emiliani, Enrico Ghezzi, Vittorio Giacci, Giona A. Nazzaro, Grazia Paganelli, Bruno Roberti
Godard's Sons: Why Are They All Bastards?, by Lawrence Remila
Godard's History as a Marxist, by ??
Two or Three Things We Know About Godard, by David Ehrenstein
Jean-Luc Cinema Godard, by Richard Thompson
Youth is Beauty, by Pauline Kael
Jean Luc Godard, by Robin Wood
Godard, by Susan Sontag
Jean Luc Godard: Politics and Humanism, by Brian Darling
Jean-Luc Godard: selon deux points de vue, by Anne Villelaur
Weekend and History, by Brian Henderson
The Films of JLG, by James Monaco
'Oh, Socrates': Visible Crisis in the Video and Television Work of Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, by David Levi Strauss
An Exile in Paradise, by Richard Brody
Jean-Luc Godardin Histoire(s) du Cinemasta Ajattelun Instrumenttina, by Pasi Väliaho
A Dialogue With History: Jean-Luc Godard, the Shoah and American cultural amnesia, by George Robinson
In Praise of Godard: An Idyll on a Review, by Anthony Lane
In Praise of Love: Past Imperfect, by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Modos alternativos de producción en Deux où trois choses que je sais d’elle, by Carles Guerra
Collage, par Emile Breton
Yves Klein et Jean-Luc Godard rue Campagne Première: chutes et envols, by Francois Albéra
The Name above the (Sub)Title: Internationalism, Coproduction, and Polyglot European Art Cinema, by Mark Betz
Cinema Regained: Godard Between Proust and Benjamin, by Alessia Ricciardi
Wonderful essays on Histoire(s) du cinéma by Marie-Anne Lanavère
Brutal Optimism in a Primitive Civilization: From Godard's Week-end to May 1968, by Monika Wagenberg
Godard's Comment Ça Va (1976): From Information Theory to Genetics, by Kevin J. Hayes
For Ever Godard: Two or Three Things I Know about European and American Cinema, by Peder Grøngaard
Un cinéma réflexif critique - deux séquences de Jean-Luc Godard, by Philippe Huneman
Godard écrivain, Pierrot le fou, by Julien d'Abrigeon
Qu'est-ce que l'art, Jean-Luc Godard?, by Louis Aragon
Un cinéma réflexif critique - deux séquences de Jean-Luc Godard, by Philippe Huneman
The Truth, As Seen by Godard and Herzog, by Steve Wallace
Wirklichkeitsfragmente: Inszenierung und Montage in Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mépris (Reality Fragments: Production and Montage in Jean Luc Godard's Le Mépris), by Christian Ruschel
Jean-Luc Godard Was Killed, But His Films are Immortal, by Andrei Madison
1968 And All That, by Henry K Miller
Godard, The Musical, by Adrian Martin
Paris Match: Godard and Cahiers, by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Mourning, Sound, and Vision: Jean-Luc Godard's JLG/JLG, by Nora M. Alter
Robert Phillip Kolker's book The Altering Eye has some good Godard content
Ici et ailleurs, by André Habib
NUMERO DEUX/ESSAI TITRES, by Dennis Grunes
Dürer, Godard and Nostalgia, by Riccardo Giagni
Que peut le cinéma?, by Dominique Paini
La rose dans la poussière de l'acier, by Philippe Forest
Histoire et passion, by Marie-José Mondzain
Reinventing Time Or The Continuing Adventures of Lemmy Caution in Godard's Germany Year 90 Nine Zero, by Jeffrey Skoller
Geography, photography, the cinema, by Sam Rohdie
Five explanations for the jump cuts in Godard's Breathless, by Richard Raskin
The ultimate journey: remarks on contemporary theory, by Nicole Brenez
The Enduring Avant-Garde: Jean-Luc Godard and William Kentridge, by Michael Rush
May 1968 and After: Cinema in France and Beyond, by Donato Totaro
The Tinkerers, by Bill Krohn
Jean-Luc Godard, In Between Deleuze, by Robert Lort
The Search for a True Image, by Gregory and Maria Pearse
Jean-Luc Godard et la politique, by Denis Lévy
Traces that Resemble Us: Godard's Passion, by Jean-Louis Leutrat
The Radical Cinema and its Double, by Michael Sicinski
Reconsidering the film-politics relation, by Noel King
On Deleuze's Cinema, by Daniel Frampton
Architecture Against Architecture, by Roemer van Toorn (see section "The contra-shot in the work of Godard and Koolhaas")

GENERAL TOPIC ESSAYS

On Jean-Luc Godard, by Christopher Mulrooney
Godard the second reel, by SF Said
His Life to Live, by Michael Atkinson
Jean Luc Godard: Reinventando el cine contra el discurso hegemónico, por Gustavo Suarez
Hail Jean-Luc , by Stephen Jarvis
Godard In All His Glory, by John Harkness
God or Godard?, by Rob Nelson
Arrêt sur images
2 Or 3 Things I Know About Godard
The Man Who Dared, by Chris Herrington
A girl and a gun, by Charlotte Raven
Girls, Guns, and Godard, by Richard Armstrong
Close Ups: The French New Wave and the Face, by Iain Morrisson
Still Making Waves, by Kenneth Turan
Who still believes in Godard?, by Nick Hasted
Blame Steven, by Ben Schwartz (aka Bertolt Blecht)
Allein gegen die Mafia, by Klaus Theweleit
The Avant-Garde Gesture: From Futurism to Jean-Luc Godard (Abstract)
Required Viewing: The Film School That is Jean-Luc Godard, by Rustin Thompson
The Man Who Dared, by Chris Herrington
De l'homme d'images à l'homme d'écriture, by Simone Suchet
Godard renoue avec Godard, by Franck Cormerais
Maoist Movie Reviews salutes early Jean-Luc Godard
Salon People, by Charles Taylor
Jean-Luc Skywalker, by Richard von Busack
French Cinema's Reluctant Genius, by Scott Kraft

ESSAYS ON SPECIFIC FILMS

The Misery and Splendors of Cinema: Godard’s Moments Choisis des Histoire(s) du Cinéma , by Robert Keser
But If You Go Carrying Pictures of Chairman Mao..., by Filmbrain
The Child Of Marx & Coca Cola: On Godard's Masculin/Feminin, by Howard Slater
Band à part, by Donato Totaro
Carnal Capital, by Jonathan Rosenbaum (Masculine Feminine)
The use of parody and subversive devices in A BOUT DE SOUFFLE (1960), by Melis Alemdar
Breathless, by Roger Ebert
2Blowhards discuss Eloge de l'amour
Band à part, by Donato Totaro
Godard/Gorin's Tout va Bien, by Thomas M. Kavanagh
Godard's Nouvelle Vague: Soundtracks and Stories, by Richard di Santo
When Is a Musical Not a Musical?, by Jonathan Rosenbaum (on A Woman Is a Woman)
Invisible Cities, by J. Hoberman (on Eloge de l'amour)
What to take away, by Matt Langdon (on Soigne ta droite)
Comment ça va?: A Film Between the Active and the Passive, by Bertrand Augst
Jean-Luc Godard's A Bout de Souffle and the American Cinema, by Elise Hagege
The civilization of the rump, by Pauline Kael (on Sauve qui peut (la vie))
First Title: The Dawn (or, in Polish, Tytuł świt), by Łukasz M. Zieliński (on Prénom: Carmen)
In Her Place, by Kaja Silverman and Harun Farocki (on Numéro deux)
Four essays on Pierrot le fou, by Laura Crommelin, Barbara Lemon, Richard Adair and Peter Enright
Get Your Madis On, by Joshua Clover (on Band of Outsiders)
Anguish: Alphaville, by Richard Roud
Jean-Luc Godard and Vivre sa vie, by Tom Milne
David Thomson's Top Ten Films: Pierrot le fou
The Civilization of the Rump, by Pauline Kael (on Sauve qui peut (la vie))
Arduous, Thrilling Godard, by Manohla Dargis (on Éloge de l'amour)
Godard's passion for making movies is gone; all that's left are his "ideas", by Charles Taylor (on Éloge de l'amour)
Godard in Autumn, Analyzing America, by Stuart Klawans (on Éloge de l'amour - need NYTimes Account)
The Melancholy World Weariness of Godard's Twilight Work, by A. O. Scott (on Éloge de l'amour - need NYTimes Account)
Vivre sa Vie, by The Billiard Table
Godard: Adult Concepts?, by Fergus Daly and Adrian Martin (on Éloge de l’amour)
Revolte, Phantasie, Utopie, by André Grzeszyk (on Pierrot le fou)
"The Film That We Wanted to Live": Re-releasing Modernist Movies, by Daryl Chin (on Band of Outsiders)
Die Kunst, Bedeutung zu verschieben, by Monika Seidl (on Nouvelle Vague)
La ruse du roi Godard: Sortie de «King Lear», requiem pour un cinéma mourant, tourné en 1986, by Philippe Azoury and Olivier Seguret
Analysis of Tout va bien, by Bordwell and Thompson (now password protected at the originating site)
Sounds of Provincial Life: Sound Editing in Jean Luc Godard's Weekend, by Earl Jackson, Jr.
The Cinephilia of Le mépris, by Rich Swintice
The Modernist Aesthetic of Le mépris, by will da shaman
Band of Outsiders, by Charles Taylor
My Life to Live, by Roger Ebert
El registro puro (One + One), by Álvaro Buela
To Be Young and Out of Breath, by Sasha Statman-Weil
Analyse fondamentale du film Pierrot le fou, by Raynald Gagné
Soigne Ta Droite: Godard Rears His Equivocal Head, by A. O. Scott
The City of Pain - Alphaville and Two Or Three Things I Know About Her, by Nigel Watson
Texts About Cinema, by Michel Manuel (on Je vous salue, Marie)
Breathless/A Bout de souffle: Out of Breath: Two Negatives Make A Positive, by John Kreidl
A New Historical Analysis of A Bout de Souffle, by Tao Ruspoli
ELÄÄ ELÄMÄÄNSÄ ELOKUVASSA (Vivre sa vie), by Hannu Lallukka and Tomi Pelkonen
Dangerous nonsense about work, by Sidney Shanker (on Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie))
Godard/Deleuze: Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie), by Paul Patton
Scandal to the Jews, folly to the pagans: a treatment for Hail Mary, by Stuart Cunningham & Ross Harley
Sound without vision: Do soundtrack albums need movies?, by Jason Anderson (on Nouvelle Vague)
Helas Pour Moi, by Evelyn Kao
Those who "play at life and death", by David Walsh (on For Ever Mozart)

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