Art and logic: Godard’s Alphaville as philosophy.
Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville: une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965) constitutes a strikingly brilliant mise en scène of strife between humans and logic. Led by a supercomputer and its scientist-creator, this technocratic city annihilates emotive human creativity. I argue that this dystopian s...
| Publicado en: | Studies in French Cinema Vol. 17; no. 2; pp. 165 - 182 |
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| Formato: | Film/TV Criticism and Review |
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May2017
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