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Title: ALPHAVILLE
FRENCH FILM GUIDE
By: Chris Darke
Format: Hardback

List price: £100.00


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ISBN 10: 1845112180
ISBN 13: 9781845112189
Publisher: I.B.TAURIS & CO LTD.
Pub. date: 1 October, 2005
Series: Cine-File French Film Guides
Pages: 114
Description: Explores the film's combination of genres and styles, its remarkable creation the secret agent Lemmy Caution, and uses his interviews with the director's collaborators to chronicle the film's production. This book relates to Godard's later work, setting it in the context of his career and of its influence on other filmmakers and artists.
Synopsis: A striking black-and-white hybrid of film noir and science fiction, "Alphaville" (1965) is now one of the most enduringly popular of Jean-Luc Godard 's films of the 1960s. Working without sets, special effects, or even a script, Godard created a dystopian vision of a technocratic city of the future, which resonates with filmmakers today. "Alphaville" pits secret agent Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) against Alpha 60, the super-computer that presides over a city where weeping is outlawed, poetry goes unrecognised and the words 'conscience' and 'love' have ceased to exist. Lemmy's mission is to capture the renegade scientist Professor von Braun (Howard Vernon) but is complicated when he falls in love with the Professor's ravishing daughter, Natasha (Anna Karina). In this first ever exploration of Godard's masterpiece, published on the fortieth anniversary of its release, Chris Darke uncovers the film's unique combination of genres and styles and draws on new interviews with the director's collaborators to chronicle the film's production.Analysing "Alphaville" in its historical context, he also examines how the film in fluenced Godard's later work, as well as exploring Alphaville's 'afterlife' in the work of other filmmakers and artists.
Publication: UK
Imprint: I.B.Tauris
Returns: Returnable
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