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At the Limit of Breath: Poems on the Films of Jean-Luc Godard

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At the limit of breath: Poems on the films of Jean-Luc Godard - Scobie, Stephen
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"I wanted this to be a narrative. So finally Jean-Luc went all the way: every line in the script a quotation from somewhere else. Every blessed line. Love doesn't die. It's people who die. Love just goes away." -from "NOUVELLE VAGUE / New Wave (1990)" Stephen Scobie celebrates "the greatest film director of his age" with poetry exploring 44 of Godard's films. Subtle yet profound unities play from poem to poem. Characters, locations, images, and the generous use of quotation jump-cut and recur to send the imagination reeling ...

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At the limit of breath: Poems on the films of Jean-Luc Godard 2013, University of Alberta Press, Edmonton

ISBN-13: 9780888646712

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