Contempt & Diva Video Essay

201327 min 10 secFilm: Documentary

Script: Jimmy Weaver

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A video essay on Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt (Le Mépris) and Jean-Jacques Beineix’s Diva, and how they exemplify the modernist interest in the real vs. the classical ideal and the postmodern skepticism towards the existence of the real, respectively.

Subject categories

  • Film and Video Arts > Film and Video Making
  • Media Education > Film and Video Production
  • Arts Education > Visual Arts

Credits

writer
Jimmy Weaver
editor
Christopher Heron
narrator
David J. Phillips