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Jean Luc Godard

Born in Paris in 1930, Jean-Luc Godard was the most significant of a group of filmmakers responsible for the French Nouvelle Vague (New Wave). During the 1960s, Godard’s free-wheeling film techniques helped to redefine cinema “One of the founding fathers of the New Wave, he was its most innovative in form…Jump cuts, narration, cinema as essay, cinema as collage, self-referential cinema, cinema of anarchy you name it, Godard’s work in this decade redefined the term cutting edge” (Sixties 1).

Godard’s work was appreciated by film critics, art houses, and the like, but his work lost favor in the 1970s and he spent a decade of near inactivity before returning to film with 1980’s Every Man For Himself. With each film he released, Godard transformed conventional film narrative in one form or another. With Breathless, he introduced the jump cut “editing scenes so that only the beginning and end of an action are shown” (Jean-Luc 1). In his later films of the 1960s, like Chinoise and Weekend, he developed a style that focused more on ideas and analysis of social issues than character and story. These films are representative of his cinema as essay style. Godard became increasingly interested in Marxism and Maoist ideology and the films he made during this period have an in-your-face Maoism. During this period “ever more outré stylistic leaps left even art houses behind undaunted, he remains unregenerately experimental to this day but for a pivotal decade, he was a seminal force in redrawing the map of film” (Sixties 1). Godard’s work during the 1960s helped to define a new canon of cinema techniques.

Jean-Luc Godard. http://www.columbia.edu/itc/english/f2007/jameson/bios/godard.html, Jan. 2000, 1-2.

Jean-Luc Godard in the sixties. http://www.afionline.org/nft/jan97/nft.g.html, National Film Theater. Jan. 1997, 1-6.

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