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Revisiting the Relevance of Conceptualism of Godard’s Film |
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2018, 4/2, 83–113
(Jean-Luc Godard,12FR132014).14 The greatness of an act is thus measured by the
extent to which it reaches out away from the subject and into the world, away
from I and into the heart of that ethereal, Buberian Thou. It is for this reason
12 Godard 1968, 243.
13 Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, FR/IT 1965), 00:59:40.
14 Adieu au Langage (Jean-Luc Godard, FR 2014), 00:12:30.
Fig. 2: Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard, FR/IT 1965): Pierrot and Marianne impersonate Uncle
Sam’s nephew and Uncle Ho’s niece, as they make fun of American tourists. Godard has never
hidden his anti-American sentiments and has repeatedly assaulted the fabric of the American
culture, from its cutthroat capitalism to shallow, mediocrity-fostering commercialism to prostituted
professionalism and beyond. As an illustration, his 1967 manifesto insinuates the intention to
demolish “the vast Hollywood-Cinecitta-Mosfilm-Pinewood etc. empire” and “create cinemas which
are national, free, brotherly, comradely and bonded in friendship.”12 Hinting at the manipulative
machinery of Hollywood, Godard turned cinema halls into mass execution sites for those who
refused to conform to the dehumanized lifestyle of Alphaville.13 Hollywood cinemas, per Godard’s
metaphor, thus become halls where the spiritual is subtracted from the material and which
brainwashed attendees leave deadened on the inside.
JRFM
Journal Religion Film Media, Band 04/02
- Titel
- JRFM
- Untertitel
- Journal Religion Film Media
- Band
- 04/02
- Autoren
- Christian Wessely
- Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati
- Herausgeber
- Uni-Graz
- Verlag
- SchĂĽren Verlag GmbH
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- Graz
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- 2018
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