Godard

Karen Smolens, Richard Roud, Michael Temple , Edith Smolens

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BFI Publishing
16 September 2010

Film theory & criticism; Individual film directors, film-makers

Series: BFI Silver

Richard Roud's Godard, first published in 1967 as 'Number One' in the seminal Cinema One series, was the first monograph on the great film-maker to be published in English, and one that reveals a unique intimacy between the author and his subject. Roud's provocative and far-reaching analysis shows an intuitive understanding of the aesthetic, intellectual and political context in which Godard worked, paying particular attention to his 'political' cinema, including the ferocious masterpiece Weekend (1967).

In his foreword to this reissue, Michael Temple provides an overview of film criticism on Godard, arguing that, more than forty years since its publication, Roud's book remains at the forefront of writings on the director. Temple pinpoints how Roud was uniquely placed as a contemporary of Godard's to follow the film-maker's career from one explosive film to the next, charting the course of the Godardian star even as Roud's own career as a critic and festival programmer was unfolding. He contends that Roud's study was 'a pure product – and a faithful reflection – of a certain tendency in British film culture at the end of the 1960s: cinéphile, progressive, European, intellectual, metropolitan.' For Temple, Roud's work remains a lucid summary of what Godard had already achieved by the end of the 1960s, and provides a suggestive model of cultural criticism with which to approach subsequent aspects of Godard's multimedia artistic adventure.

By: Karen Smolens, Richard Roud
Introduction by: Michael Temple
Other: Edith Smolens
Imprint: BFI Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 190mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 420g
ISBN: 9781844573554
ISBN 10: 1844573559
Series: BFI Silver
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 16 September 2010
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

RICHARD ROUD (1929–89) was an American writer on film and co-founder and latterly Director of the New York Film Festival. In the 1950s, Roud was the London Correspondent of Cahiers du cinéma, and from 1963 to 1969, Chief Film Critic for the Guardian newspaper. His books include Cinema: A Critical Dictionary – The Major Film-Makers (two volumes, 1980), A Passion for Film: Henri Langlois and the Cinémathèque Française (1983), and Jean-Marie Straub (1972), also in the Cinema One series. MICHAEL TEMPLE is Reader in Film and Media at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. His publications include, as co-editor, Jean-Luc Godard: Documents (2006); The French Cinema Book (2004), and For Ever Godard (2004) and, as author, Jean Vigo (2005).