Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot Le Fou

Jean-Luc Godard''s Pierrot le fou (1965) made at the height of the French New Wave remains a milestone in French cinema. More accessible than his later films it represents the diverse facets of Godard''s concerns and themes: a bittersweet analysis of male-female relations; an interrogation of the image; personal and international politics; the existential dilemmas of consumer society. This volume brings together essays by five prominent scholars of French film. They approach Pierrot le fou from the perspectives of image-and-word-play aesthetics and politics history and high- and popular culture. A full filmography and a selection of reviews are included.