Examining the cinema. The question about the medium in Jean-Luc Godard's selected films of the early 1980s Cover Image

Badanie kina. Pytanie o medium w wybranych filmach Jean-Luc Godarda z początku lat osiemdziesiątych
Examining the cinema. The question about the medium in Jean-Luc Godard's selected films of the early 1980s

Author(s): Matylda Szewczyk
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Jean-Luc Godard

Summary/Abstract: Szewczyk’s article focuses on Godard’s self-thematic films and on questions about the status of cinema in an era of the advancement of new technologies. In her analysis of Godard’s films, Szewczyk tries to define the concept of ‘self-thematic cinema’ and to trace the peculiar deconstruction (understood as factorization) of a cinematic work performed by the French filmmaker. Szewczyk is, first and foremost, interested in the diagnoses of cinema made by the director of "Breathless" in the period in which many filmmakers, including Godard, pronounced the death of cinema while theoreticians of culture yet again discussed a “crisis of representation”.

  • Issue Year: 2006
  • Issue No: 54-55
  • Page Range: 64-80
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish