Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard was a film director, screenwriter, and critic associated with French cinema in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His work engaged with narrative experimentation, political themes, and the formal properties of film and sound.
Godard is discussed in film studies, French cinema history, and analyses of modernist and postmodernist cinema.
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Godard’s films are examined for their departures from conventional narrative structure, use of editing and sound, and engagement with contemporary theory and politics. Interpretations situate his work within shifting historical and critical contexts.