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...

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Published in:	Studies in French Cinema Vol. 17; no. 2; pp. 165 - 182
Main Author:	Jones, Andrew
Format:	Film/TV Criticism and Review
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd May2017
Subjects:	Godard, Jean-Luc, 1930-2022 Alphaville > Une Etrange Aventure de Lemmy Caution (Film) Philosophy in motion pictures Birth of Tragedy, The (Book : Nietzsche) Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900
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