Mothers and Daughters
Abjection and Maternity in the French New Wave
The French New Wave is a film movement which could be said to be obsessed with women. After all, it was Jean-Luc Godard who said that all you need for a movie is “a girl and a gun” — a quote attributed by Godard to Griffith, but immortalized as a Godard-ism by a 1966 Pauline Kael article in The New Republic. While this quote is classically Godardian, it…
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