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For those interested in Michael Witt’s illustrated talk on Godard as Cinema Historian, his book is available via Combined Academic Publishers with a 30% discount.
Jean-Luc
Godard, Cinema Historian
Michael Witt
Winner of the 2014 Limina Award for Best International Film Studies Book
"Michael Witt has given us a clear, exhilarating, inspiring presentation of Godard’s tour de force, Histoire(s) du cinéma, bringing the director’s entire body of work into focus in the process. Beautifully written, his study succeeds
brilliantly in making Godard’s most difficult films and videos comprehensible, tracing their genealogies within the director’s career and his points of reference. This is essential reading about digital media’s potential to "write history", raising wonderful
questions about a committed personal approach to 'cinema history'." —Janet Bergstrom, Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, UCLA
"What Witt communicates nicely... is the richness and depth of Godard’s project. Histoire(s) du cinéma is a work that needs to be engaged with on its own terms, but its complexity and strength are only enhanced by the kind of detailed analysis
that Witt and others have begun to provide it with." —Film Quarterly
"Witt provides a thorough account of Histoire(s) du cinéma's genesis and an erudite yet highly readable exegesis of its manifold narratives and ramifications" —French Studies
"Overall, Jean-Luc Godard: Cinema Historian is quite simply a brilliant book, a sustained meditation on Godard’s approach to history and his Histoire(s) du cinema, but also an extraordinary summation of Godard’s entire career." —Year's
Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
Originally released as a videographic experiment in film history, Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma has pioneered how we think about and narrate cinema history, and in how history is taught through cinema. In this stunningly illustrated
volume, Michael Witt explores Godard’s landmark work as both a specimen of an artist's vision and a philosophical statement on the history of film. Witt contextualizes Godard's theories and approaches to historiography and provides a guide to the wide-ranging
cinematic, aesthetic, and cultural forces that shaped Godard's groundbreaking ideas on the history of cinema.
Michael Witt is Professor of Cinema and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Film and Audiovisual Cultures at University of Roehampton in London. He is co-editor of several books on French film including Jean-Luc Godard: Documents,
The French Cinema Book, and For Ever Godard.
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