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Author:   Michael Witt (University of Roehampton, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 17.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.080kg
ISBN:  

9781350494596

ISBN 10:   1350494593
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   30 October 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Part 1: Literature, Cinema, Television General Introduction 1. Literature Godard’s earliest unmade literary adaptations Odile Other unmade or abandoned adaptations of the late 1950s The early 1960s From Éva to L’Écrivain (‘The writer’) Popular genre literature Classics From Guy de Maupassant and the Maquis de Sade to Masculin féminin Unmade adaptations of the 1970s and 1980s Animal films The 1990s and beyond Ramuz again: Les Signes parmi nous (fable) (‘The signs among us [fable]’) 2. Cinema Remakes Un simple film Film criticism and the desire for a new type of film journal Jean-Pierre Beauviala, the Paluche, and the dream of a new 35mm camera Collaborations with Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope Studios Voyons ce dont on parle (‘Let’s see what we’re talking about’) Films on cinema history Collages de France, Collèges de France, J-L Godard légende 2006, Never Godard… Self-reflective projects 3. Television The 1960s Televised Sport Adventures in Television in Rouyn-Noranda ‘Dreaming on paper’: Moi Je (‘Me, I’) Birth (of the Image) of a Nation Part 2: Theatre, Politics, History General Introduction 4. Theatre Godard’s theatrical projects of the 1960s Antoine Bourseiller and the theatrical adaptation of La Religieuse (Memoirs of a Nun) Pour Lucrèce (Duel of Angels) and A Rehearsal of Pour Lucrèce Theatre in La Chinoise Approaches to King Lear Bérénice revisited The 1990s and 2000s 5. Politics From France la douce (‘Sweet France’) to Masculin féminin and La Chinoise The Vietnam War The USA, Cuba and Cub(us)a One American Movie Communications and Un film français (‘A French film’) Down With Cinema! Jusqu’à la victoire (‘Until victory’) 1970-71: Other Projects La Jeune Taupe (‘The young mole’) 6. History Adaptations of books by professional historians The Ninth Symphony Imagining France under Russian Occupation World War II: The White Rose and the Killing of Anton Webern A film about the Holocaust in the early 1960s Jean-François Steiner and Treblinka Le Tunnel Not a Gala Dinner Le Silence de la terre (‘The silence of the earth’) Projects with Marcel Ophuls A further proposed collaboration with Bernard-Henri Lévy The Kindly Ones and The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million Conclusion List of Completed Works by Godard Annotated List of Godard’s Unmade, Unfinished or Abandoned Projects Bibliography Index

Reviews

A dazzling array of Godardian might-have-beens from the most meticulous and thoughtful of Godard scholars. * Jonathan Rosenbaum, Film Critic, jonathanrosenbaum.net, USA * Michael Witt has set a high bar for what it means to analyse a film director’s body of work, and to locate its hetroclite traces in order to do so. He has accomplished the Herculean task of covering ALL of Godard’s work of this kind, giving it order, showing us its logic, understanding the zigzag ways of Godard’s thinking through ideas, sometimes, for decades. This is a book to come back to, and to treasure as an absolutely reliable resource. * Janet Bergstrom, Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, UCLA, USA * An astounding scholarly achievement. The depth and rigour of Witt’s primary research is breathtaking. Once again, Witt completely reconfigures the Godardian corpus, while making a significant contribution to media archaeology and to the study of ‘orphaned’, lost or forgotten cultural objects. * Michael Temple, Emeritus Professor, Birkbeck College, London, UK *

Author Information

Michael Witt is Professor of Cinema at the University of Roehampton, UK. He is the author of Jean-Luc Godard, Cinema Historian (2013) and the co-editor of For Ever Godard (2004), The French Cinema Book (2nd edition; BFI/Bloomsbury, 2018), and Jean-Luc Godard: Documents (2006).

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