Book chapter
Totally, Tenderly, Tragically … and in Color
A Companion to Jean‐Luc Godard, pp.143-155
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
05/20/2014
DOI: 10.1002/9781118586815.ch10
Abstract
The density of images, ideas, and stories in the films Jean‐Luc Godard between 1959 and 1972 stand out because they disclose something essential about the histories of film within and outside France. This chapter explores adaptation and color in Le Mépris as a means of identifying the configuration and density of images, stories, and ideas it displays. It reviews models of adaptation relevant to Jean‐Luc Godard's cinematic treatment of his source text, Alberto Moravia's 1954 novel, Il Disprezzo. The chapter considers the strategic use of color as an essential element of adaptation across formal media. According to the author, any elevation of Le Mépris above Godard's other movies is debatable and perhaps nothing more or other than perverse provocation. Godard's Le Mépris foregrounds issues of adaptation grounded in a reflection on modernity for which critical notions of fidelity and digest serve as points of access.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Totally, Tenderly, Tragically … and in Color
- Creators
- Steven Ungar
- Contributors
- Tom Conley (Editor)T. Jefferson Kline (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- A Companion to Jean‐Luc Godard, pp.143-155
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; Oxford, UK
- DOI
- 10.1002/9781118586815.ch10
- Number of pages
- 13
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/20/2014
- Academic Unit
- Cinematic Arts; French and Italian
- Record Identifier
- 9984398672302771
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