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From the Publisher
"[Godard]'s also as independent and provocative as ever, as illustrated by this collaboration with Ishaghpour, which results in a spirited dialog between the men that ranges freely among such subjects as cinema, history, art, music, literature, and philosophy, concentrating in particular on multiple definitions of history and their implications for cinema and the status of cinema as an art." --Library Journal
Praise for Godard's Cinematic Work:
"The greatest living cinematic artist, the wisest, most transformative, most original agent provocateur at work in the fields of cinema? The short answer: sans doute. Godard is to his medium what Joyce, Stravinsky, Eliot, and Picasso were to theirs: rule-rewriting colossi after whom human expression would never be quite the same."--Village Voice
"It's possible to hate half or two-thirds of what Godard does--or find it incomprehensible--and still be shattered by his brilliance."--Pauline Kael
Overview
Cinema is quite simply a unique book from one of the most influential film-makers in the history of cinema. Here, Jean-Luc Godard looks back on a century of film as well as his own work and career. Born with the twentieth century, cinema became not just the century's dominant art form but its best historian. Godard argues that - after Chaplin and Pol Pot, Monroe and Hitler, Stalin and Mae West, Mao and the Marx Brothers - film and history are inextricably intertwined. Godard presents his thoughts on film theory,...