Jean-Luc Godard's Unmade and Abandoned Projects.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Witt, Michael, author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Godard, Jean-Luc, 1930-2022--Criticism and interpretation.

Godard, Jean-Luc, 1930-2022.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (805 pages)

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Summary:

A comprehensive survey of Jean-Luc Godard's vast body of unrealised projects in film, video and television as well as plays, exhibitions and architectural works from the late 1940s to the 2020s.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Towards a negative history of cinema

Godard on unmade, unfinished and abandoned films

The Godardian non-corpus

Aims and organization of this book

Chapter 1: Literature

Godard's earliest unmade literary adaptations

Odile

Other unmade or abandoned adaptations of the late 1950s

The early 1960s

From Éva to L'Écrivain ('The writer')

Popular genre literature

Classics

From Guy de Maupassant and the Marquis de Sade to Masculin féminin

Unmade adaptations of the 1970s and 1980s

Animal films

The 1990s and beyond

Ramuz again: Les Signes parmi nous (fable) ('The signs among us (fable)')

Conclusion

Chapter 2: Cinema

Remakes

Un simple film

Film criticism and the desire for a new type of film journal

Jean-Pierre Beauviala, the Paluche and the dream of a new 35mm camera

Collaborations with Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Studios

Voyons ce dont on parle ('Let's see what we're talking about')

Films on cinema history

Collages de France, Collèges de France, J-L Godard légende 2006, Never Godard . . .

Self-reflective projects

Chapter 3: Theatre

Godard's theatrical projects of the 1960s

Antoine Bourseiller and the theatrical adaptation of La Religieuse (Memoirs of a Nun)

Pour Lucrèce and Une répétition de Pour Lucrèce ('A rehearsal of Pour Lucrèce')

Theatre in La Chinoise

Approaches to King Lear

Bérénice revisited

The 1990s and 2000s

Chapter 4: Television

The 1960s

Televised sport

Adventures in television in Rouyn-Noranda

'Dreaming on paper': Moi Je

Birth (of the image) of a nation

Chapter 5: Politics

From France la douce ('Sweet France') to Masculin féminin and La Chinoise.

The Vietnam War

The USA, Cuba and Cub(us)a

One American Movie

Communications and Un film français ('A French film')

Down with cinema!

Jusqu'à la victoire ('Until victory')

1970-1: Other projects

La Jeune Taupe ('The young mole')

Chapter 6: History

Adaptations of books by professional historians

The Ninth Symphony

Imagining France under Russian occupation

The Second World War: The White Rose and the killing of Anton Webern

A film about the Holocaust in the early 1960s

Jean-François Steiner and Treblinka

Le Tunnel

Pas un dîner de gala ('Not a gala dinner')

Le Silence de la terre ('The silence of the earth')

Projects with Marcel Ophuls

A further proposed collaboration with Bernard-Henri Lévy

The Kindly Ones and The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

Godard's Unmade and Abandoned Projects

Godard's Principal Completed Works

Notes

Filmography

Films about or featuring Godard

Select Bibliography

General

Published writings and collages by Godard, including co-authored items

Interviews with and talks by Godard

Joint interviews with and talks by Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin

Interviews with Jean-Pierre Gorin

Interviews with the Dziga Vertov group

Joint interviews with Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville

Interviews with Anne-Marie Miéville

Interviews with other collaborators

Writings on Godard

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-350-49462-3

1-350-49460-7

9781350494602

OCLC:

1545644834