What are some clear trends in Goddard work?

Increased politicization.

Flattening of the image. No deep space in cinema.

Acknowledged artificiality in cinema.

What is Charles De gaule known for?

He led the Free French Forces during World War II.

What is the connection between Godard and Pop Art?

Goddard address and attacks Commercial Art

He Appropriated the vitality of Commercial art as critique of consumerism.

He needed to appropriate this aesthetic in order to attack consumerism, capitalism.

How would you describe the work of Warhol?

His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement.

What is Godards relationship to American film?

Goddar struggles to combine his love of American films with the destruction of American capitalism invading France.

What is Nouvelle Vague?

Journalistic survey (L’Express) of new youth movement in France in late 1950s
Filmmakers: Truffaut, Vadim, Godard, Chabrol

What is Cahiers du cinema?

film journal founded in 1951
Andre Bazin – co-founder & co-editor

What was the objections to French commercial film culture?

“Tradition of Quality”
Dominated by literary adaptations
Valorization of the screenplay
“Cinema du papas”

Dir. Francois Truffaut, France, 1959

-moral ambiguity

-theme of society ruining the individual (pressure of society vs. individual)

-episodic (not linear)

-realism - doom

-deglamorize society

-no clear resolution