Companion to Jean-Luc Godard

Tom Conley is Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and Visual & Environmental Studies at Harvard University. His publications include Film Hieroglyphs (2006), Cartographic Cinema (2007), An Errant Eye (2011), and others.T. Jefferson Kline is Professor of French at Boston University. His publications include Bertolucci’s Dream Loom (1987), Screening the Text: Intertextuality and New Wave French Cinema (1992), Unraveling French Cinema (2010), and a variety of essays on French and European literature and film.

• Notes on Contributors viiiIntroduction 1Tom Conley and T. Jefferson Kline1 From Pen to Camera: Another Critic 11Jean-Michel Frodon2 À bout de souffle: Trials in New Coherences 21Phillip John Usher3 “Médicis 15-37”: Bernardo Bertolucci vs. Jean-Luc Godard 44Fabien S. Gérard4 Un Femme est infâme: Godard’s Writing Lesson 60Elizabeth Ezra5 Michel Legrand Scores Une femme est une femme 71Kareem Roustom6 Three-Way Mirroring in Vivre sa vie 89Maureen Turim7 Commerce and the War of the Sexes: Laetitia Masson and Jean-Luc Godard 108Martine Beugnet8 Les Carabiniers: BB Guns at War and at the Movies 119Gerald Peary9 A Postmodern Consideration of Jean-Luc Godard’s Le Mépris 128Emily Macaux10 Totally, Tenderly, Tragically . . . and in Color: Another Look at Godard’s Le Mépris 143Steven Ungar11 Le Mépris: Landscapes as Tragedy 156Ludovic Cortade12 Bande(s) à part: Godard’s Contraband Poetry 171T. Jefferson Kline13 Pierrot le fou and a Legacy of Forme 187Tom Conley14 Godard’s Wars 197Philip Watts15 (Dé)collage: Bazin, Godard, Aragon 210Douglas Smith16 The Children of Marx and Esso: Oil Companies and Cinematic Writing in 1960s Godard 224Thomas Odde17 One or Two Points About Two or Three Things I Know About Her 243Jacqueline Levitin18 Godard’s Remote Control 263John Hulsey19 La Chinoise ... et après?: Aging Against Tradition 282Grace An20 Jean-Luc, Community, and Communication 296Marc Cerisuelo21 On and Under Communication 318Michael Witt22 Factories and the Factory 351Amie Siegel23 Passion’s Ghost 367Murray Pomerance24 Schizoanalyzing Souls: Godard, Deleuze, and the Mystical Line of Flight 383David Sterritt25 Godard the Hegelian 403Daniel Fairfax26 Godard’s Ecotechnics 420Verena Andermatt Conley27 Retrospective Godard 430Elisabeth Hodges28 “An Accurate Description of What Has Never Occurred”: History, Virtuality, and Fiction in Godard 441Scott Durham29 Noli me tangere: Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(e)s du cinéma 456Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli30 Godard the Historiographer: From Histoires du cinéma to the Beaubourg Exhibition 488Trond Lundemo31 The Old Place, Space of Legends 504Margaret C. Flinn32 Notre musique: Juste une conversation 514Erin Schlumpf33 Jean-Luc Godard: To Liberate Things from the Name that We Have Imposed on Them (Film . . .) to Announce Dissonances Parting from a Note in Common (Socialisme) 527Irmgard EmmelhainzIndex 546