Killing Me Softly?: An Examination of the Depiction of Violence in the Early Films of Jean-Luc Godard (1960-1967)

by Andrew K. Lawston

Jean-Luc Godard's early films proved the adage that all you need to make a movie is "a girl and a gun." Whether in crime thrillers like the era-defining A Bout de Souffle (1960) or philosophical science-fiction masterworks like Alphaville (1965), the Nouvelle Vague auteur alternated between romance and action. The violence that peppers Godard's early films seems 'muted', however, prompting this exhaustive study of the director's techniques for depicting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1518658369
• ISBN13: 9781518658365
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"