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Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le fou, made at the height of the French New Wave, remains a milestone in French cinema. More accessible than his later films, it represents the diverse facets of Godard's concerns and themes: a bittersweet analysis of male-female relations; an interrog…
"This volume brings together essays by five prominent scholars of French film. They approach Pierrot le fou from the perspectives of image and wordplay, aesthetics and politics, history, and high and popular culture, offering thought-provoking insights into the film while demons…
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyrights -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Doubled Lives -- PART I:AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- 1. Automatic Life, So Life -- 2. Order Catastrophically Unknown -- 3. The Blushing Machine -- PART II:TRANSLATION -- 4. Living Punctuations -…
Doubled lives -- Autobiography -- Automatic life, so life: Descartes -- Order catastrophically unknown: Freud -- The blushing machine: Derrida -- Translation -- The point if at all: Cixous and Celan -- Naming the mechanical angel: Benjamin -- Raw war: Schmitt, Jønger, and Joyce …
"Inanimation offers a fresh account of what life is and the ethical and political consequences that follow from this conception. Inspired by Walter Benjamin's observation that 'the idea of life and afterlife in works of art should be regarded with an entirely unmetaphorical obje…
"Inanimation offers a fresh account of what life is and the ethical and political consequences that follow from this conception. Inspired by Walter Benjamin's observation that 'the idea of life and afterlife in works of art should be regarded with an entirely unmetaphorical obje…
