14 Godard’s Utopia(s) or the Performance of Failure

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Foreword ix
5. Acknowledgements xi
6. Introduction xiii
7. Godardian Legacy in Film, Music, and Dance
8. Jean-Luc Godard, Christophe Honoré, and the Legacy of the New Wave in French Cinema 3
9. Jean-Luc Godard: Dans le noir du temps (2002)— The “Filming” of a Musical Form 15
10. Jean-Luc Godard and Contemporary Dance: The Judson Dance Theater Runs Across Breathless 37
11. Godardian Politics of Representation: Memory/ History
12. The Representation of Factory Work in the Films of Jean-Luc Godard 53
13. Godard, Spielberg, the Muselmann, and the Concentration Camps 67
14. “The Obligations of Memory”: Godard’s Underworld Journeys 81
15. Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma Brings the Dead Back to the Screen 99
16. Godardian Legacy in Philosophy
17. Jean-Luc Godard and Ludwig Wittgenstein in New Contexts 127
18. Godard, Schizoanalysis, and the Immaculate Conception of the Frame 143
19. The “Hidden Fire” of Inwardness: Cavell, Godard, and Modernism 157
20. The Romance of the Intellectual in Godard: A Love–Hate Relationship 169
21. Formalist Legacies: Narratives and Exhibitions
22. Principles of Parametric Construction in Jean-Luc Godard’s Passion 185
23. “A Place of Active Judgment”: Parametric Narration in the Work of Jean-Luc Godard and Ian Wallace 197
24. Godard’s Utopia(s) or the Performance of Failure 217
25. Filmography 235
26. About the Contributors 237
27. Index 241
28. Books in the Film+Media Studies Series 245