Murat Nemet-Nejat on Histoire Du Cinema Jean-Luc Godard

By Murat Nemet-Nejat — Published on December 7, 2009

There is one work that for quite a long time I’ve thought needs to be translated into English. That is Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire Du Cinema. This book is based on a series of T.V. programs (with illustrations) that Godard gave in France on the nature of film language. Full of fascinating and brilliant observations—for instance, on the nature of “the gaze” in film and in painting—the book has relevance not only to film but also to new possibilities in all sorts of artistic endeavors, including literature. It is a powerhouse of ideas.

Murat Nemet-Nejat is a Turkish translator and poet working on the long poem “The Structure of Escape,” and on the translation of the Turkish poet Seyhan Erozçelik’s complete book of poetry Rosestrikes and Coffee Grinds.

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