A Bout De Souffle

ISBN: 9781780765082 出版年：2013 页码：144 Ramona Fotiade Bloomsbury Publishing

One of the most charismatic feature films of the New Wave, A Bout de Souffle (1960) has retainappeal nemphatic statement of a generational break with tradition, but also as Godard's earliest renditithematic and stylistic motifs that would become his trademark. Sustained critical attentififty years hcult film, propelled memorable coupling of its lead actors, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, whose story on screen seemed to portray the troublbetween French cinema and Hollywood. In this original guide to the film, Ramona Fotiade provides an in-depth analysis of its production and reception contexts, as well as of salient aspects mise-en-scene and editing. She situates A Bout de Souffle in relation to Godard's filmography and critical writings up to 1960, focusing on the elaboration of a narrative and visual discourse that has come to be identified with a distinctive strand in postmodern French cinema.She also explores the impact of Godard's early counter-narrative and visual strategies on the independent American filmmakers and the French Cinema the 1980s and 1990s.