This volume offers a new interpretation of the whole of Godard's career in cinema. Drawing examples from all periods of Godard's filmmaking, it examines the parallels between the director's innovative approach to film form and wider developments in French culture and thought since 1950.

Douglas Morrey is Lecturer in French at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Series editors' foreword
Acknowledgements
1. Necessity or contingency: Godard as film critic 1950-59
2. Scenes from domestic life: 1960-65
3. Outside: 1960-62
4. End of the beginning / beginning of the end: 1966-67
5. Schooling: 1968-72
6. Home movies: 1974-78
7. Love and work: 1979-84
8. Smiling with regret: 1984-90
9. The sense of an ending: 1991-96
10. Old man river: 1998-
Conclusion
Filmography
Select Bibliography
Index