Jean-Luc Godard's Political Filmmaking

Dispels the myth that Jean Luc Godard's work ceased to be concerned with politics after the 1970s Investigates Godard's political filmmaking in the context of Thirdworldism and anti-imperialism Highlights Godard's on-going exploration on the stakes of aesthetic-political representation Engages with Godard's controversial juxtaposition between the Shoah and the Nakba

Irmgard Emmelhainz is an independent writer and scholar based in Mexico City. She is the author of The Tyranny of Common Sense: Mexico's Neoliberal Reconversion (2016; in Spanish) and The Sky is Incomplete: Travel Chronicles in Palestine (Forthcoming; in Spanish).

1. Introduction.- 2. Who Speaks Here?: Jean-Luc Godard's 'Militant Filmmaking' (1967-1974).- 3. Elsewhere: Dialogue of Points of View: Jean-Luc Godard and Tiersmondisme .- 4. Technique and Montage: Saying, Seeing and Showing the Invisible .- 5. Representing the Unrepresentable: Restitution, Archive, Memory .- 6. Conditions of Visuality and Materialist Film at the Eve of the 21st Century.- 7. Conclusion.