Godard's Contempt Essays from the London Consortium

Combining work from established film critics and the very freshest of voices, this collection brings to bear a wide range of cultural and disciplinary backgrounds on one of the most intriguing films of the twentieth century.

• Features contributions from a wide range of cultural and disciplinary backgrounds
• Essays are brought together to form the basis of a new analysis of one of the most intriguing films of the twentieth century
• Incorporates essays from students studying in the London Consortium, a partnership of five institutions including the Architectural Association, Birkbeck, University of London, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Science Museum, and the Tate
• Contains an introduction and post-script from the editors

Colin MacCabe is Distinguished Professor of English and Film at the University of Pittsburgh and Associate Director of the London Consortium. His books include The Eloquence of the Vulgar: Cinema, Language and Politics (1999), Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at 70 (2004), T.S. Eliot (2006), and The Butcher Boy (2007). He has also produced feature films, television documentaries and installations, his most recent films are Derek (2008) and Ways of Listening (2012).

Laura Mulvey is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has written extensively on film and film theory. Her books include Fetishism and Curiosity (1996), Death Twenty-four Times a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image (2006), Experimental  British Television (edited with Jamie Sexton, 2007), and Visual and Other Pleasures (2nd edition, 2009). She has co-directed films, including Riddles of the Sphinx (1978) and Frida Kahlo and Tina Malatti (1980), as well as the documentary Disgraced  Monuments (1996).