Description: Godard and the Essay Film is an incisive study of the essayistic cinema of Jean-Luc Godard and other innovators. Warner's book illustrates how the essay film works as an intimate reflective dialogue with the spectator.
Review Quotes: "Godard and the Essay Film is a first-rate piece of scholarship that makes substantial contributions on a variety of topics, including the essay as literary and cinematic form, film and philosophy, and the study of the indispensable oeuvre of Jean-Luc Godard." --Michael Renov, author of The Subject of Documentary
". . . a superb piece of work, reaffirming cinema as a (potentially) philosophical machine that can lead us to think (that we have not yet begun thinking)." --Studies in European Cinema