The Image Book: or Penser avec les mains

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dc.contributor.authorBeugnet, Martine
dc.contributor.authorRavetto-Biagioli, Kriss
dc.contributor.editorWalton, Saigeen
dc.contributor.editorCrispino, Lucioen
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-15T08:09:28Z
dc.date.available2022-07-15T08:09:28Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractDrawing inspiration from Denis de Rougemont’s 1936 text Penser avec les mains, Jean-Luc Godard’s most recent film brings together what the Swiss philosopher calls “penser engagé” with his own unique kind of “cinéma engagé.” The Image Book (Le Livre d’image, 2018) starts with three image-gestures that punctuate the film: the cropped close-up of the right hand of Leonardo da Vinci’s St. John The Baptist, French illustrator Joseph Pinchon’s drawing of Bécassine with her upwards pointing left hand, and the hands of the filmmaker joining together spools of film at a Steenbeck editing table. Like many other “late” Godard films, The Image Book is a multilayered assemblage of quotations, sounds, music, art and cinematic references. Yet, unlike some of its predecessors, this film questions the monolithic (Occidental) way of seeing the world, including Godard’s younger self. Combining citations from films, works of art and philosophical texts from the Maghreb and the Middle East, the film offers itself as an exercise in “thinking with one’s hands” that results in the unflinching critique of Orientalism in the twenty-first century as well as an imaginative attempt to reach out to, if not join alongside with, the other.en
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dc.identifier.citationBeugnet, M. and Ravetto-Biagioli, K. (2022) 'The Image Book: or Penser avec les mains', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 23, pp. 10-31. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.23.01en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.23.01
dc.identifier.endpage31
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078
dc.identifier.issued23
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphavilleen
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage10
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/13370
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue23/HTML/ArticleBeugnetAndRavetto.html
dc.rights© 2022, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectJean-Luc Godarden
dc.subjectLe Livre d’imageen
dc.subjectIconic gestureen
dc.subjectEthics of montageen
dc.subjectRevisiting orientalismen
dc.titleThe Image Book: or Penser avec les mainsen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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