The artistic impact of Jean-Luc Godard, whose career in cinema has spanned over fifty years and yielded a hundred or more discrete works in different media cannot be overestimated, not only on French and other world cinemas, but on fields as diverse as television, video art, gallery installation, philosophy, music, literature, and dance.
The Legacies of Jean-Luc Godard marks an initial attempt to map the range and diversity of Godard’s impact across these different fields. It contains reassessments of key films like Vivre sa vie and Passion as well as considerations of Godard’s influence over directors like Christophe Honoré. Contributors look at Godard’s relation to philosophy and influence over film philosophy through reference to Wittgenstein, Deleuze, and Cavell, and show how Godard’s work in cinema interacts with other arts, such as painting, music, and dance. They suggest that Godard’s late work makes important contributions to debates in memory and Holocaust Studies.
The volume will appeal to a non-specialist audience with its discussions of canonical films and treatment of themes popular within film studies programs such as cinema and ethics. But it will also attract academic specialists on Godard with its chapters on recent works, including Dans le noir du temps (2002) and Voyage(s) en utopie (2006), interventions in long-running academic debates (Godard, the Holocaust, and anti- Semitism), and treatment of rarely discussed areas of Godard’s work (choreographed movement).

Douglas Morrey is an associate professor of French at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Jean-Luc Godard (2005) and the co-author of Jacques Rivette (2009). He is currently researching the legacy of the New Wave in French cinema.

Christina Stojanova is an associate professor in film and media studies at the University of Regina. She is the co-editor, with Bela Szabados, of Wittgenstein at the Movies (2011). She is currently working on her book on new Romanian cinema.

Nicole Côté is an associate professor at Université de Sherbrooke. She is a member of VERSUS, a group researching representations intersecting race/gender/ class in literature, video, and cinema. She has published several articles and book chapters, edited two shortstory anthologies, and co-edited three books, most recently, Expressions culturelles des francophonies (2008).

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Christina Stojanova is an associate professor in film and media studies at the University of Regina. She is the co-editor, with Bela Szabados, of Wittgenstein at the Movies (2011). She is currently working on her book on new Romanian cinema.

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Nicole Côté is an associate professor at Université de Sherbrooke. She is a member of VERSUS, a group researching representations intersecting race/gender/ class in literature, video, and cinema. She has published several articles and book chapters, edited two shortstory anthologies, and co-edited three books, most recently, Expressions culturelles des francophonies (2008).

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