A wide-ranging and accessible approach to Godardrsquo;s later work; and a major intervention in the study of film and ethics.Encounters with Godard takes the reader on a personal voyage into the sensory pleasures and polyphonic rhythms of Jean-Luc Godardrsquo;s multimedia work since the late 1970s; from his feature films and video essays to his published writings; art books; and media performances. Godard; suggests James S. Williams; lays ethical claim to the cinematic; defined in the broadest terms as relationality and artistic resistance. An introductory chapter on the extended history of La Chinoise (1967); a film explicitly of montage; is followed by seven different types of critical encounters with Godard; encompassing the fields of art and photography; music and literature; and foregrounding themes of gender and sexuality; race and violence; mystery and emotion. The Godard who emerges here is a restless and radical experimenter who establishes new cinematic thresholds through new technology and expands the creative potential and free exchange of the archives. Williams examines works including Nouvelle vague (1990); Film socialisme (2010); Heacute;las pour moi (1993); and the magnum opus Histoire(s) du cineacute;ma (1988ndash;98). Wide-ranging and accessible; Encounters with Godard marks a major intervention in the study of film aesthetics and ethics while forging a vital dialogue with literature; history and politics; art and art history; music and musicology; philosophy; and aesthetics.James S. Williams is Professor of Modern French Literature and Film at Royal Holloway; University of London. His books include Space and Being in Contemporary French Cinema; Gender and French Cinema (coedited with Alex Hughes); and The Erotics of Passage: Pleasure; Politics; and Form in the Later Work of Marguerite Duras.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Unless you know the songs already or can read music. dont bother.By C. GroveI should have thought about this further before purchasing. This might be fine if you either know the songs by heart or youre great at reading music but if neither then you will be lost trying to learn the songs simply by playing the chords. Because ALL the songs are theses SAME four chords they pretty much sound all alike! lol Kinda ridiculous. really!0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Customerlove it and got a neighbor to order onel2 of 4 people found the following review helpful. I dont like the way this is laid outBy Danny CrossettThe book has some good songs but this is a beginner book and I do not like the way it is laid out. Instead of having all the verses right under the cords they have only the first verse with the cords and the other verses printed with no cords at the end of the music.
