Joanna Walsh
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A book-length essay on beauty and revolution as seen through the work of Jean-Luc Godard.
As Joanna Walsh watches the films of Jean-Luc Godard, she considers beauty and desire in life and art. "There's a resistance, in Godard's women," writes Walsh, "that is at the heart of his work (and theirs)." She is captivated by the Paris of his films and the often porous border between the city presented on screen and the one she inhabited
...3) I love Mom
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Animal characters celebrate mothers, especially ones who play fun games, have bright smiles, and kiss hurt knees.
4) Vertigo
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Women's Studies. "Joanna Walsh's haunting and unforgettable stories enact a literal vertigothe feeling that if I fall I will fall not toward the earth but into spaceby probing the spaces between things. Waiting for news in a children's hospital, pondering her husband's multiple online flirtations or observing the tourists and locals at a third-world archeological site, her narrator approaches the suppressed state of panic coursing beneath things that...
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"A book-length essay on beauty and revolution as seen through the work of Jean-Luc Godard. As Joanna Walsh watches the films of Jean-Luc Godard, she considers beauty and desire in life and art. "There's a resistance, in Godard's women," writes Walsh, "that is at the heart of his work (and theirs)." She is captivated by the Paris of his films and the often porous border between the city presented on screen and the one she inhabited herself. With cool...