Fwd: Reading with J-L Godard now shipping, 30% off other titles + $10 Kindles

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   A new Godard title.

   Teaching his work has become immensely sad, now that he's gone.

   Gloria

Reading with J-L Godard now shipping, 30% off other titles + $10 Kindles

 

Much anticipated, Reading with Jean-Luc Godard is here! Edited by Timothy Barnard and Kevin J. Hayes, the 442-page volume is distributed worldwide directly and only by caboose, who is offering a 30% discount on its other bound titles with the purchase of this new book, including Godard’s own Introduction to a True History of Cinema and Television, the only English translation and only complete edition of his legendary Montreal talks; the mammoth new 670-page André Bazin Reader, with an introduction by Jacques Aumont; and the volume Montage, Découpage, Mise en scène, by Laurent Le Forestier, Timothy Barnard and Frank Kessler.

 

Books are central to the work of Godard, avid reader of pulp fiction and philosophical treatises, classical drama and modernist novels, scientific tomes and Maoist doctrine, comic books and volumes of art history. In this one-of-a-kind volume, 50 specialists working in a dozen countries engage with 109 individual books by 90 authors found over nearly 70 years of Godard’s films and writings. Each of these readable three-page mini-essays explores a corner of the extraordinary breadth and depth of Godard’s reading, introducing the volume to the reader and unlocking its importance to Godard. Reading with Jean-Luc Godard is not only an invaluable tool for the study of Godard’s films; it sheds new light on cinema’s longstanding dialogue with the printed word and makes an original and lively contribution to writing the history of ideas.

 

Fredric Jameson, who contributed both a preface and a coda to Reading with Jean-Luc Godard, writes of it: “What a pleasure! This is a new form, a new genre”, adding that the volume offers an opportunity “to live a moment inside one of Godard’s thoughts, however insubstantial and ephemeral. It is a great privilege to be able to do so”. Read samples from the book on Ezra Pound by Corin Depper and on François Truffaut by Jonathan Rosenbaum. See below for a list of the 90 authors whose work is discussed in the book.

 

Reading with Jean-Luc Godard, in beautiful sewn paperback and cloth board editions printed on premium Swedish book paper, ships with new lower postage rates via Canada Post/USPS in North America and from the EU to Europe (inclusive of VAT) and the U.K. $50 USD worldwide for the paperback, $110 USD (20% off list) for the hardcover. Sales to libraries are limited to the hardcover. For a limited time, get a free copy of Montage, Découpage, Mise en scène with purchase of the hardcover. Take 30% off caboose’s other bound titles, with no additional shipping charges in Canada, the USA, UK or Europe. Order information here.

 

Please consider recommending Reading with Jean-Luc Godard to your librarian for acquisition, along with our other fine titles.

 

Electronic editions of other recent titles and titles in caboose’s backlist can now be found on Jstor – ask your librarian for access – and are once again available as Kindle editions on Amazon worldwide for $10.

 

Coming in the spring, Bodies and Things: Selected Writings by Lesley Stern, with commentary by Tracy Cox-Stanton, Kathleen Stewart and Bill Brown.

 

Reading with Jean-Luc Godard

Reading with Jean-Luc Godard. 442 pp. 28 November 2023. Sewn paperback, ISBN 978-1-927852-46-0, $50. Sewn hardcover, full cloth boards, colour printed end papers, ISBN 978-1-927852-47-7, $110.

 

Alleg ◦ Aragon ◦ Ardrey ◦ Arendt ◦ Aron ◦ Badiou ◦ Balzac

Baraka ◦ Bardèche & Brasillach ◦ Bataille ◦ Baudelaire ◦ Bazin

Beckett◦ Benayoun ◦ Bergson ◦ Blanchot ◦ Borges ◦ Brecht ◦ Bresson

 Breton ◦ Broch ◦ Brunschvicg ◦ Bukowski ◦ Caumery & Pinchon

Chandler ◦ Cheyney ◦ Cleaver ◦ Cocteau ◦ Darwish ◦ Debord ◦ Descartes

Dolto ◦ Dostoevsky ◦ Duras ◦ Eliot ◦ Éluard ◦ Faulkner ◦ Faure ◦ Flaubert

Forton ◦ Gébé ◦ Genet ◦ Giraudoux ◦ Goodis ◦ Green ◦ Heidegger ◦ Langlois

Levinas ◦ London ◦ Malraux ◦ Mann ◦ Mao ◦ Marquand ◦ Matheson ◦ McCoy

Melville ◦ Montaigne ◦ Moravia ◦ Mourlet ◦ Musset ◦ Ninzhy ◦ Ovid

Pasolini ◦ Péguy ◦ Peisson ◦ Poe ◦ Pound ◦ Prokosch ◦ Proust ◦ Queneau

Quentin ◦ Ramuz ◦ Reverdy ◦ Rimbaud ◦ Rivette ◦ Rocha ◦ Rohmer

Rossellini ◦ Sacotte ◦ Sartre ◦ Shakespeare ◦ Shannon ◦ Truffaut

Valéry ◦ van Vogt ◦ Villiers ◦ Watson ◦ Weil ◦ Wittgenstein ◦ Woolf

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Gloria Monti, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Cinema and Television Arts 
California State University, Fullerton, CA
glori...@gmail.com

Said Jean‐Pierre Gorin: “We have no answers.” Said Jean‐Luc Godard: “Only questions.”

[caboose]

I see that in my haste in preparing this announcement I neglected to mention Michael Witt's major essay in the True History of Cinema volume on Godard's multi-decade film history project. My sincere apologies to Michael. T.B.   

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