Jean-Luc Godard and the Nineteenth Century: Archives of a Modernity

Professor Anne-Gaëlle Saliot gave the lecture, "Jean-Luc Godard and the Nineteenth Century: Archives of a Modernity" on March 29th, 2018 in Paris as part of the international conference "Archives and Future Images", organized by Université Paris-Diderot and the Cinémathèque Française.   An exciting symposium commemorating the 10th anniversary of the conference, "Archives and Future Images" gathered ninety participants, teachers, researchers, and students in cinema and media studies.  The event was co-organized by Romance Studies' partner CERILAC Department of Paris-Diderot (Literature, Arts and Communication) and the Cinémathèque Française.

Professor Saliot's paper investigated Jean-Luc Godard's aesthetic use of archives in both Histoire(s) du cinéma and Allemagne Année 90 Neuf Zéro.  Informed by Michel Foucault's conceptualization of the archive as a network of active relations, and Jacques Derrida's vision of the archive as an ambiguous process, at once recording and creating forms, this conference presents the purpose of the 19th century in Godard's cinema by approaching it as archives of a modernity still in the process of becoming. 

To watch the lecture, please visit:  https://cloud.cfav.fr/index.php/s/jJH9faYSjHsZ32G