...This chapter focuses on Jean Luc-Godard's JLG/JLG: Self-portrait in December (1994), Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991), and Film Socialisme (2010). In JLG/JLG, Godard shows that morality is the horizon of life by which it is defined...

...The German filmmaker Alexander Kluge has long promoted cinema's relationship with the goals of human emancipation. Jean-Luc Godard and Filipino director Kidlat Tahimik also believe in cinema's ability to bring about what Theodor W. Adorno once called a “redeemed world.” Situating the films...

...This chapter concludes that the utopianism of Jean-Luc Godard, Kidlat Tahimik, and Alexander Kluge lies in their ability to extract a realm of freedom from the realm of necessity—or at least a capacity to imagine a realm of freedom, as well as a world of warmth, and a world of happiness. Each...

... by examining the works of filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais, which transform and shift the medium's sensory focus between the auditory and visual. This attribute of “flexible malleability” can be reduced to shifting dynamics in subject-object relations. The chapter argues that film can be seen...

... the possibility to nullify this by analyzing Jean-Luc Godard's Vivre sa vie (1962) and 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1966). These films illustrate a range of practices that provide a conventional mode of visual subjectivity, in which the camera aligns with a singular viewing...

... of Jean-Luc Godard's films, which critique the audio-visual illusion of empirical observation (objectivity), and the cinema of Alain Resnais, in which the sound-image generates innovative portrayals of individual experience (subjectivity). Both filmmakers radically upend conventional film practices...

...This chapter turns to the problems concerning perception and objectivity in film. It explores the connotations of objectivity in cinema and the “countercinema” of Jean-Luc Godard, analyzing his film Contempt (1962), where he illustrates the “code of objectivity” which addresses...

...This book examines the utopian pronouncements or representations in the works of Jean-Luc Godard, Kidlat Tahimik, and Alexander Kluge. In one way or another, Godard, Tahimik, and Kluge subscribe to an idea of utopia in which the hope for and aspiration toward the establishment of a social utopia...