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The forest for the trees : political contexts for Godard's nature imagery in Film socialism and Adieu au langage
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Morrey, Douglas (2019) The forest for the trees : political contexts for Godard's nature imagery in Film socialism and Adieu au langage. Studies in French Cinema, 19 (1). pp. 55-68. doi:10.1080/14715880.2018.1427181 ISSN 1471-5880.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/14715880.2018.1427181
Abstract
Jean-Luc Godard’s most recent feature films, Film socialisme (2010) and Adieu au langage (2014), are striking for their prominent imagery of nature: recurring images include water and forests, and one of the principal ‘characters’ of Adieu au langage is a dog. In many ways, this can be seen to prolong a long-term project of aesthetic research begun in Godard’s films of the early 1980s, complete with the sometimes dubious gender politics of that period. The recent films also include an historico-political tirade against technocracy. Yet nature in these films is prevented from becoming a transcendent opposing pole to technics through the extreme fragmentation of Godard’s imagery that reaches an unprecedented level of distillation at this late stage of his career. As such, this article suggests that the difficult, unstable form of these films marks a serious attempt to capture something of a new political reality.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > French Studies Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Studies in French Cinema | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1471-5880 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2019 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 19 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 55-68 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/14715880.2018.1427181 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 18 January 2018 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 21 May 2018 |
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