Everything Is Cinema The Working Life Of Jean-luc Godard

When Jean-Luc Godard, exemplary director of the French New Wave, wed the ideals of filmmaking to the realities of autobiography and current events, he changed the nature of cinema. Among the greatest cinematic innovations, Godard's films straddle the line between fiction and documentary, criticism and art. Similarly, his persona projects the shifting images of cultural hero, impassioned loner, business dealer, and creative rebel. Indeed, Godard has entered the modern canon, as a figure as mythologized as he is influential. In Everything Is Cinema, critic Richard Brody draws on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, and collaborators as well as on unpublished archival footage to paint the fullest picture yet of the elusive director. Paying meticulous attention to the intellectual and political currents of the moment, as well as the emotional forces at work, Brody traces an arc from Godard's early writing as a critic for the important Cahiers du Cinema, to his heyday of popular success with such films as Breathless and Contempt, through the Maoist years, and up to the grand vision of the television series History of Cinema. Throughout, Brody argues that Godard's work, life, and the zeitgeist are inseparable, the films the product of a single obsessive quest to unify biography, creativity, and history. A meticulous and sweeping work of biography, Everything is Cinema is at once masterful storytelling and original interpretation.Brody, Richard is the author of 'Everything Is Cinema The Working Life Of Jean-luc Godard', published 2007 under ISBN 9780805068863 and ISBN 0805068864.