Breathless
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biographical sketch
Breathless
career development
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continuity script
criticism
cultural impact
cultural references
director's life
disillusioned generation
disillusionment
Dudley Andrew
early sixties
English
English translation
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film history
filmography
Francois Truffaut
French
French filmmakers
French New Wave cinema
Godard's goals
innovation
intertextual references
Jean-Luc Godard
low-budget film
major accomplishments
original treatment
past
reviews
selected bibliography.
style
tensions
tradition
tremendous influence
world cinema
Product details
- ISBN 9780813512532
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1988
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Breathless, a low-budget film, came to be regarded as one of the major accomplishments of the French New Wave cinema of the early sixties. It had a tremendous influence on French filmmakers and on world cinema in general. Beyond its significance in film history, it was also a film of considerable cultural impact. In Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard captured the spirit of a disillusioned generation and fashioned a style, which drew on the past, to parade that disillusionment.
In his introduction, Dudley Andrew brilliantly explains what Godard set out to accomplish in Breathless. He illuminates the intertextual and cultural references of the film and the tensions within it between tradition and innovation. This volume also features, for the first time in English, the complete and accurate continuity script of Breathless, together with Francois Truffaut's surprisingly detailed original treatment. Also included are an in-depth selection of reviews and criticism in French and English; a brief biographical sketch of the director's life that covers the development of his career, as well as a filmography and selected bibliography.
In his introduction, Dudley Andrew brilliantly explains what Godard set out to accomplish in Breathless. He illuminates the intertextual and cultural references of the film and the tensions within it between tradition and innovation. This volume also features, for the first time in English, the complete and accurate continuity script of Breathless, together with Francois Truffaut's surprisingly detailed original treatment. Also included are an in-depth selection of reviews and criticism in French and English; a brief biographical sketch of the director's life that covers the development of his career, as well as a filmography and selected bibliography.
DUDLEY ANDREW is a professor of film studies and comparative literature at Yale University. He is the author of Concepts in Film Theory, André Bazin, Film in the Aura of Art, and other books on film.
