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One of the most important, controversial, and prolific filmmakers in film history, and a founder of French New Wave cinema,Jean-Luc Godard has maintained an unbroken string of films in variousgenres and mediums from the late 1950s onward. Godard has established areputation as a rebel who can work within and outside the system,producing films that are creative, breathtakingly beautiful, and yetcommercial enough to earn back their production costs. In this book,Wheeler Winston Dixon offers an overview of all of Godard's work as afilmmaker, including his work for television and his ethnographic workin Africa. Free from the jargon and value judgments that have marredmuch of what has been written about Godard, this is the only book thatcovers the entirety of Godard's career, from his early film criticismfor Cahiers du Cinema to his more recent video/film work, illustrated with forty-six rare stills and researched in detail.
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In this book, Wheeler Winston Dixon offers an overview of all of Godard's work as a filmmaker, including his work for television and his ethnographic work in Africa. Free from the jargon and value judgments that have marred much of what has been written about Godard, this is the only book that covers the entirety of Godard's career.
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Wheeler Winston Dixon is the James Ryan Professor of Film Studies,Coordinator of the Film Studies Program, Professor of English at theUniversity of Nebraska, Lincoln, and, with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster,editor of the new book series Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture for Rutgers University Press.
His recent books include Black & White Cinema: A Short History (2015); Streaming: Movies, Media and Instant Access (2013); Death of the Moguls: The End of Classical Hollywood (2012); 21st Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era of Transformation (2011, co-authored with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster); A History of Horror (2010); and Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia (2009).
Dixon's book A Short History of Film (2008, co-authored with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster) was reprinted sixtimes through 2012. A second, revised edition was published in 2013, and a third edition is forthcoming in 2018; the book is a required text in universities throughout the world.
His recent books include Black & White Cinema: A Short History (2015); Streaming: Movies, Media and Instant Access (2013); Death of the Moguls: The End of Classical Hollywood (2012); 21st Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era of Transformation (2011, co-authored with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster); A History of Horror (2010); and Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia (2009).
Dixon's book A Short History of Film (2008, co-authored with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster) was reprinted sixtimes through 2012. A second, revised edition was published in 2013, and a third edition is forthcoming in 2018; the book is a required text in universities throughout the world.
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- PublisherState Univ of New York Pr
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0791432858
- ISBN 13 9780791432853
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages290
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