Jean-Luc Godard

Asbjørn Grønstad (University of Bergen)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.07: French Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (Universidad de Antioquia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

Born 3 Dec 1930
Activity 1950-ongoing

Places

Born in France
Active in France

Activities

Primary

Film Director
Film Theorist/ Critic

Resources

Jean-Luc Godard was born in Paris to Franco-Swiss protestant parents on December 3 1930, the second of four children, but grew up in Switzerland. His father, Paul Godard, was a physician with a doctorate in ophthalmology, while his mother Odile was an accomplished amateur photographer who died in a traffic accident in 1954. At age 18, Godard enrolled in anthropology courses at the Sorbonne but failed to attend any classes, although he went to hear Claude Lévi-Strauss lecture in 1949. It was during this time that Godard became involved in the burgeoning ciné-club environment in the Latin Quarter, attending screenings at Henri Langlois's Cinémathèque, meeting André Bazin and the young cinephiles that only a few years later would be …

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Citation: Grønstad, Asbjørn. "Jean-Luc Godard". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 August 2008 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12170, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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