Examining the Cinema: The Question About the Medium in Jean-Luc Godard’s Selected Films of the Early 1980s
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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”.
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Jean-Luc Godard, crisis of representation, self-thematic cinemaReferences
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Matylda Szewczykkwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
University of Warsaw Poland
Doktorantka w Zakładzie Filmu i Audiowizualności Instytutu Kultury Polskiej Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.
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