Godard’s “Breathless” on the French and American cultures.
Focus in answering the question with examples from the film.
Reading List:
Jean-Luc Godard, Breathless (1960)
Naomi Greene, The French New Wave, London-New York: Wallflower, 2007 Birkbeck Library: 791.430944.GRE
Michel Marie, The French New Wave: An Artistic School (translated by Richard Neupert), Oxford: Blackwell, 2003 Birkbeck Library: 791.4309444 MAR
Douglas Morrey, ‘À bout de souffle / Breathless’, in Phil Powrie (ed.), The Cinema of France, London-New York: Wallflower Presss, 2006, pp. 91-99 Birkbeck Library: 791.430944 CIN
Michel Marie, ‘“It really makes you sick!’: Jean-Luc Godard’s A bout de souffle (1959)’, in Susan Hayward and Ginette Vincendeau, French Film: Text and Contexts, London-New York: Routledge, 2000, pp. 158-73 Birkbeck Library: 791.430944 FRE