{"product_id":"9781916809574-phrases-six-films","title":"Phrases","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSix Films\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhrases\u003c\/i\u003e presents the spoken language from six films by Jean-Luc Godard. Gathered here, in written form, they are words without images: not exactly screenplays, not exactly poetry, but something else entirely.\u003cbr\u003e“when I admire a film   they say to me   yes, it’s very pretty   but it’s not   cinema   so   I asked myself   what it was”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhrases\u003c\/i\u003e presents the spoken language from six films by Jean-Luc Godard: \u003ci\u003eGermany Nine Zero\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Kids Play Russian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJLG \/ JLG\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e2 x 50 Years of French Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFor Ever Mozart\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIn Praise of Love\u003c\/i\u003e. Completed between 1991 and 2001, during what has been called Godard’s “years of memory”, these films and videos were made alongside and in the shadow of his major work from that time, the monumental \u003ci\u003eHistoire(s)\u003c\/i\u003e du cinema, complementing and extending its themes. Like \u003ci\u003eHistoire(s)\u003c\/i\u003e, they offer meditations on, among other things, the tides of history, the fate of nations, the work of memory, the power of cinema, and the nature of love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGathered here, in written form, they are words without images: not exactly screenplays, not exactly poetry, but something else entirely. Godard himself described them enigmatically: “Not books. Rather recollections of films, without the photos or the uninteresting details… Only the spoken phrases. They offer a little prolongation. One even discovers things that aren’t in the films in them, which is rather powerful for a recollection. These books aren’t literature or cinema. Traces of a film…”. In our era of ubiquitous video streaming, e-books, and social media, these traces of cinema raise compelling questions about the future of media—cinematic, literary, and otherwise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57278988255606,"sku":"9781916809574","price":19.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_40030642_77e2c4e0-ba9b-414b-a414-6dda830189ab.jpg?v=1771484493","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781916809574-phrases-six-films","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}