New York: Viking Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover, 292 pp., 8.5 x 6 inches. 

Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket with minor wear and rubbing along extremities.

Godard's essays and interviews gathered in this volume range from his early efforts for La Gazette du Cinema to his later work in Cahiers du Cinema. They are critical, theoretical, historical - a free flowing association of jokes, puns, private allusions, and wild philosophical and scholastic references, they are much like his films themselves. In writing about Mankiewicz, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Bergman, Welles, or Tashlin, or about his contemporaries in the nouvelle vague such as Resnais, or about the accomplishments of Renoir, Bresson and Tati, Godard is also writing about himself: Godard on Hollywood, on new cinema in Europe, India and Japan - it is all, in an essential and vital sense, Godard on Godard. B&W photographic images included throughout the book. Scarce in hardcover.