Dear all,
Apologies if some of you have already seen this. It is a major event for film publisher caboose and we thought the news might interest members of the Frameworks community. Best wishes, Marina ~ ~ ~ On the heels of Jean-Luc Godard’s jury prize at the Cannes film festival for a film made on a shoestring budget with hand-held equipment – 55 years after he revolutionised cinema using the same methods for *À bout de souffle* – caboose is pleased to announce publication of Godard’s book *Introduction to a True History of Cinema and Television*, a veritable treatise on independent film and video production by the world’s consummate independent filmmaker. This volume, consisting of a series of 14 talks presented in Montreal in 1978 as preparation for a never-realised educational history of cinema on videocassette was published in French in 1980 in faulty and incomplete transcription, and in various translations after that date, but was never translated into English. The Montreal film scholar Timothy Barnard has spent seven years preparing a first-ever English translation based on his new and complete transcription of Godard’s talks (running to 160,000 words in the French), adding back the questions and comments of Godard’s interlocutors and correcting thousands of errors and omissions in the French and foreign-language editions. The volume is published Montreal publisher caboose in a handsome, affordable edition numbering 560 pages. It includes a 20,000-word essay by film scholar Michael Witt on Godard as film historian and the genesis of his film history project, a 20-page collage prospectus in Godard's hand for the video series, and 60 full-page illustrations – film stills manipulated by Godard for the original French edition. A sample chapter of the new translation can be read on the publisher’s web site. caboose is also giving away with each on-line purchase a volume in its new series of essays, Kino-Agora. Five titles are now in print: *The Kinematic Turn: Film in the Digital Era and its Ten Problems*, by André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion; *Dead and Alive: The Body as Cinematic Thing* by Lesley Stern; *Montage* by Jacques Aumont; *Mise en Jeu and Mise en Geste* by Sergei Eisenstein; and *The Life of the Author* by Sarah Kozloff. The first half of Timothy Barnard’s work in progress volume in the Kino-Agora series, on cinematic *découpage*, can be read free of charge on the caboose web site. Of special interest to the independent filmmaking community is the collaborative oral history project Planetary Projection on the caboose site, in which film projectionists around the world discuss their craft in their own words. Some 40 projectionists’ vignettes, complete with photos, are now posted on the caboose site, with more added as they arrive. caboose is also giving away copies of all five Kino-Agora volumes to contributing projectionists. If you or anyone you know has ever projected film, please consider contributing to the project by contacting project coordinator Marina Uzunova via our web site. www.caboosebooks.net
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