Book Description Cinema is quite simply a unique book from one of the most influential film-makers in the history of cinema Here, Jean-Luc Godard looks back on a century of film as well as his own work and career Born with the twentieth century, cinema became not just the century's dominant art form but its best historian Godard argues that - after Chaplin одчоъ and Pol Pot, Monroe and Hitler, Stalin and Mae West, Mao and the Marx Brothers - film and history are inextricably intertwined Godard presentshis thoughts on film theory, cinematic technique, film histories, as well as the recent video revolution He expounds on his central concerns - how film can "resurrect the past," the role of rhythm in film, and how cinema can be an "art that thinks " Here Godard comes closest to defining a lifetime's obsession with cinema and cinema's lifelong obsession with history.  Как бы ни2005 г 160 стр ISBN 1845201973.