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Jean-Luc Godard’s Unmade and Abandoned Projects

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This book offers the first study of the French-Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's vast body of over 380 unmade, unfinished and abandoned projects over the course of his career from the late 1940s to the 2020s. While Godard is widely recognised as one of the most important and influential filmmakers of the post-war period, extremely little has been written about his largely invisible and unknown corpus of unrealised works. This includes many unmade films, videos and television programmes alongside a wide range of unfinished non-audiovisual ventures such as plays, books, exhibitions, a CD, a camera, a film journal, and even an architectural maquette. Drawing on extensive research on the surviving traces of these projects in archives and private collections, Michael Witt's comprehensive survey establishes the extent and constitution of the Godardian corpus of unrealised and abandoned works for the first time and examines them in detail in six key perspectives: literature, cinema, theatre, television, politics and history. The volume includes in-depth case studies of numerous major unfinished initiatives by Godard and his collaborators in locations around the globe (France, the Middle East, the USA, Quebec, the People's Republic of Mozambique), charts the extensive connections between his abandoned projects and his completed works, casts in relief his creative process, and offers a fresh way of thinking about and approaching his practice and oeuvre as a whole. A full annotated list of his unrealised and abandoned projects is included as an appendix.

Table of Contents:
List of Plates Acknowledgements Introduction Towards a negative history of cinema Godard on unmade, unfinished and abandoned films The Godardian non-corpus Aims and organisation of this book Chapter 1: Literature Godard’s earliest unmade literary adaptations Odile Other unmade or abandoned adaptations of the late 1950s The early 1960s From Éva to L’Écrivain (‘The writer’) Popular genre literature Classics From Guy de Maupassant and the Marquis de Sade to Masculin féminin Unmade adaptations of the 1970s and 1980s Animal films The 1990s and beyond Ramuz again: Les Signes parmi nous (fable) (‘The signs among us (fable)’) Conclusion Chapter 2: Cinema Remakes Un simple film Film criticism and the desire for a new type of film journal Jean-Pierre Beauviala, the Paluche, and the dream of a new 35mm camera Collaborations with Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope Studios Voyons ce dont on parle (‘Let’s see what we’re talking about’) Films on cinema history Collages de France, Collèges de France, J-L Godard légende 2006, Never Godard… Self-reflective projects Conclusion Chapter 3: Theatre Godard’s theatrical projects of the 1960s Antoine Bourseiller and the theatrical adaptation of La Religieuse (Memoirs of a Nun) Pour Lucrèce and Une répétition de Pour Lucrèce (‘A rehearsal of Pour Lucrèce’) Theatre in La Chinoise Approaches to King Lear Bérénice revisited The 1990s and 2000s Conclusion Chapter 4: Television The 1960s Televised sport Adventures in television in Rouyn-Noranda ‘Dreaming on paper’: Moi Je Birth (of the image) of a nation Conclusion Chapter 5: Politics From France la douce (‘Sweet France’) to Masculin féminin and La Chinoise The Vietnam War The USA, Cuba and Cub(us)a One American Movie Communications and Un film français (‘A French film’) Down with cinema! Jusqu’à la victoire (‘Until victory’) 1970–1: Other projects La Jeune Taupe (‘The young mole’) Conclusion Chapter 6: History Adaptations of books by professional historians The Ninth Symphony Imagining France under Russian occupation World War II: The White Rose and the killing of Anton Webern A film about the Holocaust in the early 1960s Jean-François Steiner and Treblinka Le Tunnel Pas un dîner de gala (‘Not a gala dinner’) Le Silence de la terre (‘The silence of the earth’) Projects with Marcel Ophuls A further proposed collaboration with Bernard-Henri Lévy The Kindly Ones and The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million Conclusion Godard’s Unmade and Abandoned Projects Godard’s Principal Completed Works Notes Filmography Select Bibliography Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781350494596
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Height: 244 mm
  • No of Pages: 456
  • ISBN-10: 1350494593
  • Publisher Date: 16 Oct 2025
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Width: 169 mm


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