Two Bicycles: The Work of Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville Contributor(s): White, Jerry (Author) |
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ISBN: 1554589355 ISBN-13: 9781554589357 Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press OUR PRICE: $37.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Performing Arts | Television - History & Criticism - Performing Arts | Individual Director |
Dewey: 791.430 |
LCCN: 2016417865 |
Series: Film and Media Studies |
Physical Information: 0.53" H x 6.05" W x 9.01" (0.71 lbs) 214 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Two Bicycles examines all of the films, videos, and television works that Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mi ville, two of the most important postwar filmmakers, did together. Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mi ville worked across forms, across media, and across countries. This book, the first to be devoted specifically to the work they did together, examines the way they expanded the possibilities of cinema by using cutting-edge video equipment in a constant search for a new kind of filmmaking. Two Bicycles moves slowly across France and Switzerland, with detours in Quebec, Mozambique, and Palestine. Their amazingly varied body of work includes a twelve-hour television series, some experimental videos, an acclaimed feature film with Isabelle Huppert, a cigarette commercial, and much else. Overall the book shows the degree to which this work departs radically from the legacy of the French New Wave, and in many ways shows signs of having been formed by the distinct culture of Switzerland, to which Godard and Mi ville returned in the 1970s to set up their "atelier," Sonimage. Two Bicycles offers a chance to explore a body of work that is as unique and demanding as it is rich and revelatory. Godard and Mi ville have worked together for four decades but have never seemed more relevant. |
Contributor Bio(s): White, Jerry: - Jerry White is Canada Research Chair in European Studies at Dalhousie University. He is the author of numerous books on film, including Two Bicycles: The Work of Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville (WLU Press, 2013). |