Godard on Godard City Lights Unlike other books about Joy

Unlike other books about Joy Division

and often surprisingly "normal" young man

conveying an image of the female which was stylized and as cool as it was confident

Strauss looks at the power of the medium in the age of Photoshop

Godard on Godard City Lights Unlike other books about JoyJean Luc Godard, like many of his European contemporaries, came to filmmaking through film criticism. This collection of essays and interviews, ranging from his early efforts for La Gazette du Cinma to his later writings for Cahiers du Cinma, reflects his dazzling intelligence, biting wit, maddening judgments, and complete unpredictability. In writing about Hitchcock, Welles, Bergman, Truffaut, Bresson, and Renoir, Godard is also writing about himself