Godardian Greatness Galore!

Updated April 11, 2012

Godardloop, a multi-part video essay on the films of Jean-Luc Godard. Produced by Michael Baute and edited by Bettina Blickwede, this video explores a treasure trove of imagery found in dozens of Godard’s features and shorts, grouping them among several distinct themes. 47 films spanning 50 years of filmmaking are transformed into a stream of images that attest to an inimitable talent: an artist who can transform the world simply by the way he looks at it through his camera. Learn more and watch more Fandor videos 

Film Studies For Free catches up with some great, openly accessible or viewable, Godardian items, above and below, that have been circulating the interwebs for a little while now, together with some that haven't been!

• The most exciting news of all: Canadian publisher, and very good egg, Caboose has announced a release date of September 2012 for the English translation of Jean-Luc Godard’s Introduction to a True History of Cinema and Television. Until then you can... 

• Read a free excerpt from Michael Witt’s essay “Archaeology of Histoire(s) du cinéma” about the talks by Godard that were transcribed and translated for this book.
• Read a free chapter (uncorrected page proofs) on the film Masculin Féminin (chapter 8 of 14). 
• Check out other great developments at Caboose (FSFF will cover some more in some upcoming posts) 

• Update: Then there is the (actually) equally (if not more) exciting news of the "Godard Is" Issue of the relaunched VERTIGO magazine with great new articles and essays on the French director's work by Adrian Martin, James S. Williams, Roland-François Lack and numerous stellar others.

• Laure Astourian, 'Bridging Fiction and Documentary in Godard's Notre Musique', Berkeley Undergraduate Journal, 21.2, 2008

• Michael Atkinson, 'The World According to God: The strange truths of Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma', Moving Image Source, December 12, 2011

• Samuel Bréan, 'godard english cannes: The Reception of Film Socialisme‘s “Navajo English” Subtitles', Senses of Cinema, issue 60, 2011

• Ryszard Dabek, 'Jean-Luc Godard: The Cinema in Doubt', M/C Journal, Vol. 14.1, 2011

• Stephen Forcer, 'Word games and space invaders: play, form and philosophy in Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville's Numéro deux (1975)', originally in Studies in French Cinema, 5: 2 (2005)

• Jehanne-Marie Gavarini, 'In the Still of the Museum: Jean-Luc Godard's Sixty-Year Voyage', Postmodern Culture, 17.1, 2006

• Catherine Grant, 'Home Movies: The Curious Cinematic Collaboration of Anne-Marie Miéville and Jean-Luc Godard', pre-print of chapter in For Ever Godard (eds) Temple, Williams, Witt (London: Black Dog Press, 2004)

• Catherine Grant, '25 great Godard gifts!', Film Studies For Free, December 5, 2010

• Catherine Grant, On Jean-Luc Godard's Sauve qui peut (la vie)', Film Studies For Free, November 20, 2010

• Catherine Grant, 'For Ever Godard', Film Studies For Free, September 6, 2008

• Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy - Revue de la philosophie française et de langue française, Vol XVIII, No 2 (2010): Special Issue on Godard and Philosophy
• 'Philosophy as a Kind of Cinema: Introducing Godard and Philosophy' by John E. Drabinski
• 'Schizoanalyzing Souls: Godard, Deleuze, and the Mystical Line of Flight' by David Sterritt
  
• 'Happiness is Not Fun: Godard, the 20th Century, and Badiou' by Michael Walsh
• 'The Audible Life of the Image' by David Wills
• 'Shot and Counter-shot: Presence, Obscurity, and the Breakdown of Discourse in Godard’s Notre Musique' by Burlin Barr
• 'Pedagogy of the Written Image' by Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield
• 'Modernism as a Misnomer: Godard's Archeology of the Image' by Gabriel Rockhill

• Anuja Madan, 'The Language of Emotion in Godard's Films', Cineaction, 80, 2010

• Daniel Morgan, ‘No Trickery with Montage’: On Reading a Sequence in Godard’s Pierrot le fou', Film Studies, Issue 5, Winter 2004

• Richard Morris, '"To Realise the Ideal": Miscellaneous Remarks on Godard's Conceptual Processes Apropos of Sauve qui peut (la vie)', Film Studies, Vol. 5, Winter 2004

• Richard Neer, 'Godard Counts', Academia.edu

• Glen W. Norton's Cinema = Godard = Cinema website

• Des O'Rawe, 'The Fraternity of Metaphors: Jean-Luc Godard's Film Socialisme', Kinema, Fall 2010

• Ágnes Pethő, Jean-Luc Godard's Passages from the Photographic to the Post-Cinematic.Images in between Intermediality and Convergence, Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film and Media Studies, 2011, vol.4.

• Ágnes Pethő, 'Introduction', Cinema and Intermediality: The Passion for the In-Between (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011)

• David Phelps, 'Film Socialisme Annotated: A guided tour through Jean-Luc Godard's most allusive film', Moving Image Source, June 7, 2011

• Donald Reid, 'What We Learn We Teach Ourselves: Jean-Luc Godard’s Film Socialisme', N+1, Issue 2, March 16, 2012

• Gabriel Rockhill, Modernism as a Misnomer: Godard’s Archeology of the Image', Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy - Revue de la philosophie française et de langue française, Vol XVIII, No 2 (2010) pp 107-129. 

• Sauve qui peut la vie/Every Man For Himself Resource Archive

• Libby Saxton, 'Passion, Energy and Matter: Godard's Gesture', Part of the Cambridge Screen Media Group series, 2011  

• David Wills, 'Introduction', Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le Fou (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)