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'''JCM 312 International Cinema''' is a discussion-oriented course taught by [[User:Jeremy Butler|Jeremy Butler]].
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'''TCF 340 International Cinema''' is a discussion-oriented course taught by [[User:Jeremy Butler|Jeremy Butler]].
 
  
 
== Course objectives ==
 
== Course objectives ==
  
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TCF 340 assumes the student understands generally the contours of international cinema history. The course's objective therefore is to investigate in some depth the cinematic work of a particular nation and the historical/theoretical issues pertaining to it. This term our topic will be the French cinema.
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JCM 312 assumes the student understands generally the contours of international cinema history. The course's objective therefore is to investigate in some depth the cinematic work of a particular nation and the historical/theoretical issues pertaining to it. This term our topic will be the French cinema.
  
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The online syllabus is over here (Fall 2007):
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The online syllabus ('''Fall 2019'''): [http://bit.ly/j312f19 bit.ly/j312f19]
  
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http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T340/F07/
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==Study groups==
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'''Group 1'''
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'''Group 2'''
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'''Group 3'''
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===Extra credit===
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Do some ''major'' editing work on [http://en.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia].
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'''Group 4'''
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*"Major" means adding significant new material to a Wikipedia article or creating a new article. Generally, this should involve two-to-three paragraphs of new material, as a minimum.
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*The student may earn up to 3 extra credit points editing Wikipedia. The point value will be determined by Dr. Butler. You must send him the URL of the article you've edited and you must edit it under your own name (no nicknames).
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'''Group 5'''
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*'''The editing must be done by midnight the Friday of the last week of classes: 7 December 2007.'''
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*Suggested Wikipedia articles to edit.
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**As I notice Wikipedia articles that need help, I'll list them here; but you're encouraged to find your own to edit. For a sample of how an individual article about a specific film should look, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bringing_up_Baby .
 
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**There is a general [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Films Wikiproject] that focuses on film and specifies film topics that need work. Also, Wikipedia maintains a list of articles which need expansion, which it calls "stubs." The list of film-related stubs is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Film_stubs .
 
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**Long shot
 
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**Low-key lighting
 
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**Low-angle shot
 
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**Shot reverse shot
 
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**Eyeline match
 
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**30 degree rule
 
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**Alexandre Astruc
 
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**Andrew Sarris
 
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**''The Crime of Monsieur Lange''
 
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**''Zéro de Conduite'' (''Zero for Conduct'')
 
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**''Le Jour se lève''
 
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**''Hiroshima Mon Amour''
 
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**''The Bakery Girl of Monceau''
 
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**''Chloe in the Afternoon'' (look for ''Love in the Afternoon (1972 film)'' on Wikipedia)
 
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**''Vagabond''
 
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**''Chocolat'' (look for ''Chocolat (1988 film)'' on Wikipedia)
 
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**''Soft and Hard''
 
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**Anne-Marie Miéville
 
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**Claire Denis
 
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**Institut des hautes études cinématographiques
 
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**''In Praise of Love'' (look for ''Eloge de l'amour'')
 
  
 
== Online study guides ==
 
== Online study guides ==
 
===Chronological order===
 
===Chronological order===
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*Early French Cinema [[Early French Cinema (Lecture)|(Lecture)]]
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#Film Analysis: [[JCM312/Narrative Structure|Narrative Structure]], ''Television''
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*The Avant-Garde [[The Avant-Garde (Lecture)|(Lecture)]] ([[The Avant-Garde (Discussion)|Discussion]])
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#Film Analysis: [[JCM312/Mise-en-scene|Mise-en-scene]], ''Television''
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*French Cinema Between the Wars I: Popular Front[[French Cinema Between the Wars I: Popular Front (Lecture)|(Lecture)]] [[French Cinema Between the Wars I: Popular Front (Discussion)|(Discussion)]]
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#Film Analysis: [[JCM312/Cinematography|Cinematography]], ''Television''
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*Bazinian Realism [[Bazinian Realism (Lecture)|(Lecture)]] [[Bazinian Realism (Discussion)|(Discussion)]]
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#Film Analysis: [[JCM312/Editing|Editing]], ''Television''
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*French Cinema Between the Wars II: Poetic Realism[[French Cinema Between the Wars II: Poetic Realism (Lecture)|(Lecture)]]
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#Film Analysis: [[JCM312/Sound|Sound]], ''Television''
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*French New Wave I: Alain Resnais [[French New Wave I: Alain Resnais (Lecture)|(Lecture)]] [[French New Wave I: Alain Resnais (Discussion)|(Discussion)]]
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#Film Analysis: [[JCM312/Analytical Exercise (Discussion)|Discussion]] of Analytical Exercise
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*French New Wave II: François Truffaut [[French New Wave II: François Truffaut (Lecture)|(Lecture)]] [[French New Wave II: François Truffaut (Discussion)|(Discussion)]]
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#Early French Cinema
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*French New Wave III: Éric Rohmer [[French New Wave III: Eric Rohmer (Lecture)|(Lecture)]] [[French New Wave III: Éric Rohmer (Discussion)|(Discussion)]]
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#The Avant-Garde ([[JCM312/The Avant-Garde (Discussion)|Discussion]])
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*French Modernism: Jean-Luc Godard & Bertolt Brecht [[French Modernism: Jean-Luc Godard & Bertolt Brecht (Lecture)|(Lecture)]] [[French Modernism: Jean-Luc Godard & Bertolt Brecht (Discussion)|(Discussion)]]
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#French Cinema Between the Wars I: Popular Front [[JCM312/French Cinema Between the Wars I: Popular Front (Discussion)|(Discussion)]]
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*Godard and Contemporary Feminism [[Godard and Contemporary Feminism (Lecture)|(Lecture)]] ([[Godard and Contemporary Feminism (Discussion)|Discussion]])
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#Bazinian Realism [[JCM312/Bazinian Realism (Discussion)|(Discussion)]]
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*French Feminism, Continued: Agnès Varda and Claire Denis ([[French Feminism, Continued: Agnès Varda and Claire Denis (Lecture)|Lecture]]) ([[French Feminism, Continued: Agnès Varda and Claire Denis (Discussion)|Discussion]])
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#French Cinema Between the Wars II: Poetic Realism (discontinued)
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*Recent Godard ([[Recent Godard (Lecture)|Lecture]]) ([[Recent Godard (Discussion)|Discussion]])
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#French New Wave I: Alain Resnais [[JCM312/French New Wave I: Alain Resnais (Discussion)|(Discussion)]]
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*Cinema Ascetic: Robert Bresson [[Cinema Ascetic: Robert Bresson (Lecture)|(Lecture)]]
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#French New Wave II: François Truffaut [[JCM312/French New Wave II: François Truffaut (Discussion)|(Discussion)]]
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#French New Wave III: Éric Rohmer [[JCM312/French New Wave III: Éric Rohmer (Discussion)|(Discussion)]]
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#French Modernism: Jean-Luc Godard & Bertolt Brecht [[JCM312/French Modernism: Jean-Luc Godard & Bertolt Brecht (Discussion)|(Discussion)]]
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#Godard and Contemporary Feminism ([[JCM312/Godard and Contemporary Feminism (Discussion)|Discussion]])
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#French Feminism, Continued: Agnès Varda ([[JCM312/French Feminism, Continued: Agnès Varda (Lecture)|Lecture]], [[JCM312/French Feminism, Continued: Agnès Varda (Discussion)|Discussion]])
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#Claire Denis ([[JCM312/Claire Denis (Discussion)|Discussion]])
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#Godard Since 1968 ([[JCM312/Godard Since 1968 (Discussion)|Discussion]])
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#Cinema Ascetic: Robert Bresson
  
 
===List of lecture notes===
 
===List of lecture notes===
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[[:Category:TCF340 Lecture]]
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[[:Category:JCM312 Lecture]]
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===List of discussion notes===
 
===List of discussion notes===
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[[:Category:TCF340 Discussion]]
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[[:Category:JCM312 Discussion]]
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===Extra credit===
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==== Shot Logger ====
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Prepare frame grabs for [http://shotlogger.org Shot Logger], using a French film.
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More details will be announced later.
  
 
== Texts & resources ==
 
== Texts & resources ==
  
 
===Books===
 
===Books===
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#David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, ''Film Art: An Introduction'', Eighth Edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007). Additional resources are available on its companion Website.
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#Jeremy Butler, ''Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture''
  
 
===Articles and book chapters===
 
===Articles and book chapters===
  
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[[Category:TCF340]]
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In alphabetical order, not the order in which they are assigned.
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[[Category:TCF Classes]]
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#Armes, Roy. French Cinema. NY: Oxford University, 1985.
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#Bazin, André. "The Era of the Popular Front." In Jean Renoir, pp. 36-52. Edited and with an introduction by Francois Truffaut. Translated by W. W. Halsey II and William H. Simon. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1973.
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#Bazin, André. "The Evolution of Film Language." In The New Wave, pp. 24-51. Edited and translated by Peter Graham. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968.
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#Bazin, André. "LE JOUR SE LÊVE . . . Poetic Realism." In LE JOUR SE LÊVE: A Film by Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert, pp. 5-12. Translated by Dinah Brooke and Nicola Hayden. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1970.
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#Brecht, Bertolt. "The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre." In Brecht on Theatre, pp. 33-42. Edited and translated by John Willett. New York: Hill and Wang, 1964.
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#Bresson, Robert. Notes on Cinematography. Translated by Jonathan Griffin. NY: Urizen, 1977.
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#Crisp, C. G. Eric Rohmer: Realist and Moralist. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1988.
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#Fofi, Goffredo. "The Cinema of the Popular Front in France (1934-38)." In Screen Reader I, pp. 172-224. London: SEFT, 1977.
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#Kuhn, Annette. Women's Pictures: Feminism and Cinema. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.
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#Hughes, Robert. The Shock of the New. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980.
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#MacCabe, Colin. Godard: Images, Sounds, Politics. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, 1980.
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#MacCabe, Colin. Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy. New York: Faber & Faber, 2003.
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#Monaco, James. Alain Resnais. NY: Oxford University, 1979.
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#Monaco, James. The New Wave. NY: Oxford University, 1976.
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#Penley, Constance. "Les Enfants de la Patrie." Camera Obscura, 8-9-10, pp. 32-59.
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#Wollen, Peter. "Godard and Counter Cinema: VENT D'EST." In Readings and Writings: Semiotic Counter-Strategies. London: Verso, 1982.
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[[Category:JCM312]]
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[[Category:JCM Classes]]

Latest revision as of 18:43, 3 July 2021

JCM 312 International Cinema is a discussion-oriented course taught by Jeremy Butler.

Course objectives

JCM 312 assumes the student understands generally the contours of international cinema history. The course's objective therefore is to investigate in some depth the cinematic work of a particular nation and the historical/theoretical issues pertaining to it. This term our topic will be the French cinema.

The online syllabus (Fall 2019): bit.ly/j312f19

Study groups

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Group 5

Online study guides

Chronological order

  1. Film Analysis: Narrative Structure, Television
  2. Film Analysis: Mise-en-scene, Television
  3. Film Analysis: Cinematography, Television
  4. Film Analysis: Editing, Television
  5. Film Analysis: Sound, Television
  6. Film Analysis: Discussion of Analytical Exercise
  7. Early French Cinema
  8. The Avant-Garde (Discussion)
  9. French Cinema Between the Wars I: Popular Front (Discussion)
  10. Bazinian Realism (Discussion)
  11. French Cinema Between the Wars II: Poetic Realism (discontinued)
  12. French New Wave I: Alain Resnais (Discussion)
  13. French New Wave II: François Truffaut (Discussion)
  14. French New Wave III: Éric Rohmer (Discussion)
  15. French Modernism: Jean-Luc Godard & Bertolt Brecht (Discussion)
  16. Godard and Contemporary Feminism (Discussion)
  17. French Feminism, Continued: Agnès Varda (Lecture, Discussion)
  18. Claire Denis (Discussion)
  19. Godard Since 1968 (Discussion)
  20. Cinema Ascetic: Robert Bresson

List of lecture notes

Category:JCM312 Lecture

List of discussion notes

Category:JCM312 Discussion

Extra credit

Shot Logger

Prepare frame grabs for Shot Logger, using a French film.

More details will be announced later.

Texts & resources

Books

  1. Jeremy Butler, Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture

Articles and book chapters

In alphabetical order, not the order in which they are assigned.

  1. Armes, Roy. French Cinema. NY: Oxford University, 1985.
  2. Bazin, André. "The Era of the Popular Front." In Jean Renoir, pp. 36-52. Edited and with an introduction by Francois Truffaut. Translated by W. W. Halsey II and William H. Simon. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1973.
  3. Bazin, André. "The Evolution of Film Language." In The New Wave, pp. 24-51. Edited and translated by Peter Graham. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968.
  4. Bazin, André. "LE JOUR SE LÊVE . . . Poetic Realism." In LE JOUR SE LÊVE: A Film by Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert, pp. 5-12. Translated by Dinah Brooke and Nicola Hayden. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1970.
  5. Brecht, Bertolt. "The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre." In Brecht on Theatre, pp. 33-42. Edited and translated by John Willett. New York: Hill and Wang, 1964.
  6. Bresson, Robert. Notes on Cinematography. Translated by Jonathan Griffin. NY: Urizen, 1977.
  7. Crisp, C. G. Eric Rohmer: Realist and Moralist. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1988.
  8. Fofi, Goffredo. "The Cinema of the Popular Front in France (1934-38)." In Screen Reader I, pp. 172-224. London: SEFT, 1977.
  9. Kuhn, Annette. Women's Pictures: Feminism and Cinema. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.
  10. Hughes, Robert. The Shock of the New. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980.
  11. MacCabe, Colin. Godard: Images, Sounds, Politics. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, 1980.
  12. MacCabe, Colin. Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy. New York: Faber & Faber, 2003.
  13. Monaco, James. Alain Resnais. NY: Oxford University, 1979.
  14. Monaco, James. The New Wave. NY: Oxford University, 1976.
  15. Penley, Constance. "Les Enfants de la Patrie." Camera Obscura, 8-9-10, pp. 32-59.
  16. Wollen, Peter. "Godard and Counter Cinema: VENT D'EST." In Readings and Writings: Semiotic Counter-Strategies. London: Verso, 1982.
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