Two Bicycles: The Work of Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mieville

White, Jerry

ISBN 10: 1554589355 / ISBN 13: 9781554589357

Edité par Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, ON, 2013

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Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 214 p. Contains: Unspecified. Film and Media Studies. Audience: General/trade.

N° de réf. du vendeur MBU0000796

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Two Bicycles: The Work of Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mieville
• Éditeur: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, ON
• Date de parution: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1554589355
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781554589357
• Reliure: Trade paperback
• État de l'article: Fine.

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Synopsis

Two Bicycles examines all of the films, videos, and television works that Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, two of the most important postwar filmmakers, did together.

Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville 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 Miéville 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 Miéville have worked together for four decades but have never seemed more relevant.

À propos de l?auteur

Jerry White teaches and writes about cinema, literature, and culture in Quebec, Canada, and Europe. He is the author of numerous books on film, including WLU Press-published The Radio Eye: Cinema in the North Atlantic, 1958-1988, Two Bicycles: The Work of Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, and Stan Brakhage in Rolling Stock, 1980-1990.