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Probably the most prominent living filmmaker, and one of the
foremost directors of the postwar era, Jean Luc-Godard has received
astonishingly little critical attention in the United States. With
Speaking about Godard, leading film theorist Kaja Silverman and
filmmaker Harun Farocki have made one of the most significant
contributions to film studies in recent memory: a lively set of
conversations about Godard and his major films, from Contempt to
Passion. Combining the insights of a feminist film theorist with
those of an avant-garde filmmaker, these eight dialogueseach
representing a different period of Godard's film production, and
together spanning his entire careerget at the very heart of his
formal and theoretical innovations, teasing out, with probity and
grace, the ways in which image and text inform one another
throughout Godard's oeuvre. Indeed, the dialogic format here serves
as the perfect means of capturing the rhythm of Godard's ongoing
conversation with his own medium, in addition to shedding light on
how a critic and a director of films respectively interpret his
work. As it takes us through Godard's films in real time, Speaking
about Godard conveys the sense that we are at the movies with
Silverman and Farocki, and that we, as both student and
participant, are the ultimate beneficiaries of the performance of
this critique. Accessible, informative, witty, and, most of all,
entertaining, the conversations assembled here form a testament to
the continuing power of Godard's work to spark intense debate, and
reinvigorate the study of one of the great artists of our time.
Kaja Silverman is Professor of Rhetoric and Film at the University
of California at Berkeley. She is the author of several books,
including The Threshold of the Visible World, Male Subjectivity at
the Margins, and The Subject of Semiotics. Director and film
essayist Harun Farocki has made over 70 films, including Videograms
of a Revolution and Images of the World and the Inscription of War.
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